Kota Kinabalu: A contractor on Tuesday asked police what has become of the report he had lodged about being cheated in a so-called investment scheme.S. Seriung, 50, who lodged the police report in November 2009, said he was both surprised and dissatisfied over the length of time taken by the police to carry out their investigations.
"I made the police report in November and after a few months, called the police up to ask about any development in my case but they seemed unable to give an answer," he claimed.
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"It is 2011 already and the last phone call I made was in the middle of May, so why is it taking so long?" he asked.
Seriung said he had invested a sum of RM100,000 in a company supposedly supplying books to bookstores nationwide.
"This sum of money was shared between me and my wife, and for the first four months, we received a commission of more than RM25,000," he said.
"Seeing this as something good, we both decided to add to the sum of investment and put in another RM180,000."
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After the second investment was made, he said it was when everything started to go wrong.
"Since that, we did not receive anymore commission, and the woman in charge told us that they would return our investment model after their cheque from the main supplier has matured.
"But we waited and the money never came, this time with the reason that the company's bank account had been frozen by Bank Negara," Seriung explained.
After calling the so-called main supplier, they found out that the company had never issued any cheque to the company they had signed their investment contract with.
"This is when we realised that we may have been conned and, thus, lodged the police report," he said.
Towards this end, he urged the police to look into this matter and give an explanation as to why there is no news yet on the complaint he had lodged.
