Couple buried RM750,000
Firdaus speaking at the press conference
A couple in their 60s buried RM750,000 in a small coffin near a temple in Mile 12 of Kuching Serian road in December last year hoping that it would cure the terminally husband.
However, the elderly man never got better and realised that there was something fishy.
This comical story was revealed by Sarawak Head of Commercial Crime, Supt. Fridaus Abdullah in a press conference this afternoon.
He said the man had been sick and was approached by the bomoh who promised to cure them of his sickness.
The two then put the money in a small coffin and buried it near a temple at Mile 12, Kuching Serian Road.
HE told the two not to open it until three years later.
The woman became suspicious after a while when her husband did not get well and informed the police.
Police dug out the ‘coffin’ to find it empty.
They arrested both the bomoh aged in their 30s and 40s from their houses in Kuching and seized a car.
The two would be charged for cheating under Penal code which carries a maximum penalty of fine, whipping and jail.
In another case, three students, one a foreigner was cheated of their money by a woman who claimed to be a staff of Swinburne in middle of last year.
The trio were cheated of RM8,000, RM16,000 and RM27,000 respectively. They were made to believed that the woman could get them a place in the university.
When they went to the university late last year, they were told that there was no such arrangement made.
Police report was lodged and the woman was arrested. She was charged today for six fraud cases.
She pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
