{"id":27422,"date":"2018-10-03T16:52:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T15:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=27422"},"modified":"2018-10-03T16:52:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T15:52:16","slug":"police-want-to-speak-to-this-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/03\/police-want-to-speak-to-this-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Want To Speak To This Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Police are wanting to speak to this man in connection with a high-value international property fraud. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The image is being circulated in hope that someone will recognise him following the deception. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Police said they believe he is from the West Midlands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The victim had sold a property abroad and was asked to transfer the money which turned out to be a false account. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">She was contacted by the potential buyer who provided bank account details for her to make the transfer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">An attempt was made to withdraw the funds from a bank but were unsuccessful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Officers would like to speak to the man in the image to help with their enquiries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">They are asking for the man or anyone who has any suspicions about who he may be to contact them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Enquiries conducted so far also suggest that the man in the image may be from the West Midlands area so the public are encouraged to circulate the image far and wide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Leicester and West Midlands Police are sharing the image on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">*Anyone with any information is asked to contact DC 4613 Anne Keeling on 101, quoting crime reference number 18*286840.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are wanting to speak to this man in connection with a high-value international property fraud. The image is being circulated in hope that someone will recognise him following the deception. Police said they believe he is from the West Midlands. The victim had sold a property abroad and was asked to transfer the money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[1591],"class_list":["post-27422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","tag-property-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}