A complaint has been filed at the Salmiya Police Station by an unnamed Kuwaiti man, against a gang of African men, for allegedly making away with his money after conning him to invest in a fictitious project.
In his complaint, the Kuwaiti said gang members duped him to invest in a major project that promised to yield three times his investment in a short while. They agreed to pay him back in monthly installments within three months. Convinced of the plan, the man said he had given the gang the money, after withdrawing from his bank account and borrowing the rest from friends and relatives.
However, when the time for payment of first installment came, he was invited to a public park in Salmiya and was given KD140,000. He took the money and went home and after checking the texture of the bank notes he discovered they were fake and drove straight to the Salmiya Police Station with the money to file a complaint.
The case, which was referred to Criminal Investigation Department (CID), has now come to a dead-end after the CID discovered that the perpetrators had already fled the country.