Man arrested for conning girlfriend out of US$300,000
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A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of swindling his girlfriend out of 1.9 million yuan (US$300,000), police in Xuhui District said yesterday.
The suspect, surnamed Shi, met his alleged victim, surnamed Feng, through a matchmaking website in 2012. Although he was married at the time, Shi claimed to be an airline pilot and single, police said.
In February 2013, soon after the couple started a relationship, Shi asked Feng for a loan of 30,000 yuan to cover a compensation claim lodged against him. She agreed and transferred the funds to his bank account, police said.
Over the following two years, Shi made repeated requests for money and Feng duly obliged. As of May of this year, she had handed over 1.9 million yuan, police found.
Feng became suspicious only after her lover asked for a loan of 20,000 yuan to help him pay off a debt to the labor arbitration authority in Guangzhou, capital of south China’s Guangdong Province.
Shi told her that despite owing wages to the employees of a company he claimed to own, he had agreed with the labor agency to pay only a part of the outstanding sum.
Feng later told police that she did not believe a government agency would be prepared to bargain on such an issue, and so she reported her suspicions to the authorities.
She said also that she had continued to give money to Shi as she had been fooled into thinking he wanted to marry her.
Shi was subsequently detained by police and formally arrested by prosecutors.
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