Woman gets 3 days in jail for theft scam
Print Edition
A FOREIGN woman was recently detained for three days for falsely claiming to have had 800,000 yuan (US$129,000) worth of valuables stolen from her bag, Shanghai police said yesterday.
The woman surnamed Wu, whose nationality was not disclosed, contacted the police on June 18 to report the theft of a purse containing a luxury watch, two diamond rings and a platinum ring.
Wu said that she had been paying bills at the First Food Mall on Nanjing Road Pedestrian Mall when she noticed the purse missing from her shoulder bag, police said.
When officers investigated, however, they were unable to find any evidence of the alleged crime on footage from the shopping center’s surveillance cameras.
When pressed on the matter, Wu confessed to fabricating the story and said she was planning to make an insurance claim for the missing items once back in her home country, police said.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
