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ISF arrests man suspected of fraud, theft
The Internal Security Forces announced Sunday that it arrested a man on fraud and theft charges who confessed to carrying out over dozen scam operations.
On Sept. 28, the ISF’s Information Branch received a tip that an unidentified man was offering licenses to citizens to open branches for the money transfer company OMT, purporting to be able to finalize their paperwork at land registry branches, an ISF statement reported.
The suspect would then keep the paperwork and licensing fees to himself and disappear “without finishing the paperwork or providing the licenses,” the statement said.
As a result of investigations, the Information Branch identified the man as M.Sh., a Lebanese national born in 1977. Police managed to arrest him in the Nabatieh town of Arab Salim.
“During investigations with him, he confessed to committing more than 15 fraud and scam acts that affected citizens in Nabatieh, Hasbaya and Marjayoun," the statement said.