{"id":3949,"date":"2009-07-23T14:02:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T14:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/07\/23\/conman-has-links-to-birmingham\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:38:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:38:18","slug":"conman-has-links-to-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/23\/conman-has-links-to-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Conman has links to Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>\u2018Faith healer\u2019 sought by detectives<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"257\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/AliShah_180x232.jpg\"\/>A \u2018FAITH\u2019 Healer\u2019 from Leicester who conned a family out of thousands of pounds\u00a0could be hiding in\u00a0Birmingham, police have said.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Detectives from Leicestershire Constabulary are eager to trace Ali Shah in connection with the fraud investigation. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The victim, from Scotland, paid Shah a considerable amount of cash for faith healing services which never materialised. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Shah, who also goes by the name of Ali Shan, Shahid Ikram and Khalid Rafique, has links to Birmingham and London. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Detectives are also exploring the possibility he may have left the country. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>PC Jim Mungovin, who is investigating the incident said: \u201cWe urgently need to trace Shah. We know until recently he was living in the Leicester area, but now we believe he may have gone further a field.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWe also think there could be other people out there who have been a victim of this man. If you have, or you know someone who has then again, please get in touch.\u201d<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHe added if anyone knows of Shah\u2019s whereabouts they should not approach him and call the police instead. \u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Two men have been arrested in connection with the inquiry and released on police bail pending further enquiries.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAnyone with information about Ali Shah\u2019s whereabouts is asked to contact PC 887 Jim Mungovin on 0116 222 2222. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Faith healer\u2019 sought by detectives A \u2018FAITH\u2019 Healer\u2019 from Leicester who conned a family out of thousands of pounds\u00a0could be hiding in\u00a0Birmingham, police have said. &#13; Detectives from Leicestershire Constabulary are eager to trace Ali Shah in connection with the fraud investigation. &#13; The victim, from Scotland, paid Shah a considerable amount of cash for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","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=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}