By P. Vijian
CHENNAI (NNN-Bernama) -- After nearly a year in a south Indian prison, alleged Malaysian fraudster Michael Soosai's thought he could walk out a free man -- only to find the police slamming the brakes on his freedom. Last Thursday, he was released on bail from the Puzal Prison in Chennai, where he was jailed since his arrest in August last year, for a series of local fraud cases.
However, the police from the Krishnagiri district, about 230km from here, slammed a car theft case on the 47-year-old, preventing him from leaving prison.
Soosai was then sent to Krishnagiri where a local court remanded him on Friday morning and sent him to the Salem Central Prison.
"We have detained him in connection with a cheating case involving a car worth about Rupees 10 lakhs.
"We have crucial evidence against him and recovered the vehicle. He is now under remand," Krishnagiri Police Superintendent N. Kannan told Bernama in a telephone interview today.
According to a Krishnagiri police probe in 2009, Soosai had allegedly posed as a 'Dr Sivakumar', one of his many pseudo names, and befriended local businessman C. Vikranth to discuss a business prospect in Singapore.
During a meeting in a hotel, the Malaysian was said to have duped the businessman into handing over his luxury Scorpion vehicle to him.
The Krishnagiri case reportedly adds to a litany of other fraud cases, mostly cheating local Indians of their money and jewellery, after promising them lucrative overseas jobs.
Soosai is also wanted by Malaysian police for a series of white-collar crimes involving about RM1 million, and linked to the 2004 kidnap-cum-murder of a Malaysian in south India.
Top Indian police officials have lamented that Malaysian authorities have yet to seek Soosai's extradition, although the fugitive's name was listed on the Interpol wanted list. -- NNN-BERNAMA
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