Chester Sam­bra­no

A 33-year-old busi­ness­man has been charged with fraud­u­lent con­ver­sion in the sum of $47,000.

In a state­ment, the TTPS said Ste­fon Ra­bindrunath, 33, of Bar­rack­pore, was charged with the of­fence by of­fi­cers of the Fraud Squad on Fri­day 7th June 2024.

Po­lice said a vic­tim re­port­ed that in De­cem­ber 2020, they paid the sum of $47,000 by way of a man­ag­er’s cheque to a man.

The pay­ment rep­re­sent­ed the down pay­ment to­ward the pur­chase and im­por­ta­tion of a ve­hi­cle val­ued at $97,000, to be de­liv­ered in six weeks.

The man al­leged­ly failed to de­liv­er the ve­hi­cle as arranged and at­tempts by the vic­tim to re­cov­er the mon­ey proved fu­tile.

A re­port was made to the po­lice and an in­ves­ti­ga­tion was launched in­to the mat­ter by the Fraud Squad.

On June 6th, 2024, an ex­er­cise was co­or­di­nat­ed by Snr. Supt. Ar­let Groome, Supt. Lutch­man and ASP Bis­nath and su­per­vised by In­sp. Ba­choo, Cpl Ram­di­al and PC Sooroo­j­paul, all of Fraud Squad, San Fer­nan­do Of­fice and as­sist­ed by of­fi­cers of the Bar­rack­pore Po­lice Sta­tion.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, a male sus­pect was ar­rest­ed.

Ra­bindrunath was charged by Cpl Ram­di­al.

The Fraud Squad re­mind­ed the pub­lic that be­fore pur­chas­ing any ve­hi­cle through an agent, a thor­ough check should be made with the Min­istry of Trade and In­dus­try to ver­i­fy that the agent is au­tho­rised to con­duct such trans­ac­tions.