Muscat: Royal Oman Police (ROP) said the Criminal Investigation Department has arrested a person of African nationality on charges of money fraud and cheating a citizen in Seeb.
As per the details, the accused convinced the citizen that he will be able to make RO50 currency notes from white blank papers using a chemical solution. For this purpose, he managed to extract RO20,000 from the victim, which will be used to buy tools.
He was arrested with a set of tools, paper clips and chemical solutions that were used for in the fraud.
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