A 41-year-old man was detained for a case of extortion with false representations, forgery training and circulation of a forged document to facilitate investigations.
According to a spokesman for the Police Headquarters, a 27-year-old woman in charge of an electronics store in Paphos initially complained in August that an unknown man who contacted the store last July mentioned the name, which was eventually false. he wanted to buy two TVs that another person would later pick up from the store. Indeed, on the same day after contacting the unknown person, a man went to the electronics store and received two televisions with a total value of 720 euros, giving a bank check for their payment.
However, as it turned out, it could not be redeemed after the theft of the checkbook had been reported. Further investigation revealed evidence against the 41-year-old, who was arrested and detained yesterday.
Then in a second case, a 51-year-old woman complained last September that an audit of her husband's bank account found that a number of checks totaling € 5.500 had been redeemed. The 51-year-old told the Police that neither she nor her husband had redeemed such checks. As she was informed by her bank, the checks had been issued from their own booklet and had been redeemed between the end of August and the middle of September. Subsequently, as part of the investigations by the Paphos Crime Investigation Department, a suspicion arose against the same suspect of the 41-year-old who is allegedly involved in the second case. A new arrest warrant was issued against him, he was arrested and remanded in custody.
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