KUCHING: A pensioner yesterday claimed that he was cheated of a total of RM370,000 in investment and RM27,750 in dividend by a bank officer.
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| CHEATED: Rengeht (left) and Chong show all the evidence of transaction to the press. |
Rengeht Singh from Ramin Garden along Jalan Arang here, who sought help from the Sarawak Democratic Action Party (DAP) secretary Chong Chieng Jen, told a press conference that he made the investment in a bank upon the advice of an officer of the bank in 2008.
According to him, he met the bank officer at the bank’s branch in Satok on Feb 12, 2008 and after a discussion he withdrew RM300,000 to invest in a fund.
He claimed that he went back to the bank a year later and found out that he had earned a dividend of RM27,750 which made him think that he indeed had made a profit-making investment.
He then invested another RM70,000.
However, when he went back to look for the same officer in November 2009, he was no more working there.
He said he then went to the bank’s headquarters in Kuala Lumpur only to be informed that they never had his transaction recorded for the investment.
When he returned here, he said, he immediately went back to the bank, and was told by a manager there that he was actually a victim of a fraud.
“The manager said I was the sixth victim of the fraud. So I went to lodge a police report. I also kept contacting the bank to ask for a refund, but they never wanted to respond or take any action,” he said at the press conference in the presence of Chong.
Rengeht added that he had also lodged a complaint with Bank Negara and in February this year, a few officers from the bank’s headquarters came from Kuala Lumpur to meet and interview him.
He said sometime this month he received a letter from the headquarters where he was told that they could not take responsibility for the case as there was no evidence of transaction for the RM70,000 investment as the said bank officer was no longer working there when the incident happened.
He said they mentioned nothing about his initial RM300,000 transaction.
Rengeht said he was not satisfied with the matter which was why he was seeking help from Chong.
Chong said he would send a letter to Bank Negara as Rengeht had all the transaction receipts, and he should have his money plus dividend refunded.
“All these transactions were done by the bank officer inside the bank itself. Rengeht has all the documents and receipts complete with the bank’s letter head on them.
“I am writing a letter to Bank Negara to demand that all his money be refunded to him,” Chong said.
He also asked the other five victims to call him on 017-228 8221.
Borneo Post by Eve Sonary Heng / May 28, 2010, Friday
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