Mangalore: Police Arrest Fraudster ‘Rental Broker’ Sharief in Chikmagalur
Daijiworld Media Network—Mangalore (PS/CN)
Mangalore, Nov 6: Ibrahim Sharief, wanted for defrauding people in the guise of a rental property broker, was arrested by the Pandeshwar police on Saturday November 6.
A resident of ‘Harmony’ apartments in Attavar, Sharief had been absconding since October 5 after allegedly collecting lacs of rupees from people seeking to rent houses in the city.
Sharief was arrested in Mudigere of Chikmagalur district. However, the whereabouts of his family members are unknown yet.
As many as 38 people had claimed to have been deceived by Sharief and had pleaded to authorities to locate him at the earliest.
Sharief is said to have taken huge amounts of money as deposits from every family looking for rental houses, promising them to find them suitable residences and pay their rent too for a few months.
Believing that the arrangement was a good deal, many families had paid Sharief upfront. He, however, absconded with the money.
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