Compiled by C.ARUNO, MANJIT KAUR AND R. ARAVINTHAN
A RESIDENTIAL area in Bukit Indah, Johor, was shaken by two different panty thieves within a few days, reported China Press.
Facebook user Jackson Chong uploaded two different CCTV footage taken in Jalan Indah 27 where he lives, which showed the thieves in action.
In the first video, a car is seen stopping in front of a house in the middle of the night. A bespectacled man gets out and climbs over the outer fence. He spends some time on the front porch before climbing out again.
The property owner later reported that the women’s undergarments they had left out to dry was missing.
In the second video, a man with light brown hair is seen climbing over a fence at a different house at around 1am before taking off with panties left outdoors.Some residents said they had a similar experience, with one saying that their panties were stolen three times in the past few months.Chong warned others not to leave their undergarments out to dry at night to prevent such theft.
> Shanghai police busted a scam syndicate involved in investments around 500 million yuan (RM306mil), which purportedly offered victims an oppotunity to invest in cattle farming, reported China Press.
The syndicate, which marketed itself as “Cattle Farming Over the Internet”, would ask potential victims to invest by buying dairy cows at their farm.
They would entice victims by offering a 6% to 12% annual return and guaranteed compensation if their cows died.
Investors got to select the cows they wanted and could monitor the animals through what was claimed to be a live CCTV feed from their farm.
The syndicate offered to buy back the cows if an investor wanted to cash out.
A man named Wu, who invested three million yuan (RM1.84mil) for 600 cows, was shocked when the syndicate forcibly bought back all his cows in May.
Rather than paying him in cash, the syndicate offered to send Wu 60,000kg of beef instead, citing technical issues with their payment system.
A police probe later revealed that the farm the syndicate claimed to operate does not exist.
Instead, it used footage taken from other cattle farms to dupe victims into believing that they were monitoring the cows they have invested in.
Police have arrested four suspects.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
