SHANGHAI, June 17 (Xinhua) -- A Cameroon national was sentenced to a 10-year jail term for fraud in Shanghai, local authorities said Wednesday.
The man, Massango Priso Muna, pretended to be an assistant to an official with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and fraudulently obtained 1.015 million yuan (149,264 U.S. dollars) from a Chinese woman, according to the No. 2 Intermediate People's Court.
The court heard that the victim, surnamed Lin, met a man online in June 2008 who called himself John Lipsky and claimed to be an IMF vice president.
Lin soon fell in love with the man, and the latter proposed marriage.
"Lipsky" told Lin a month later that he planned to invest in China and would send his assistant Samco to meet her. The suspect met Lin at a hotel in Shanghai, giving her a suitcase and telling her that they needed a special chemical to make the money inside useable.
The Cameroonian borrowed 1।015 million yuan from Lin under the pretense of buying this chemical, before leaving China on Aug. 12.Police caught him on Nov. 20 when he returned to China.
Massango Priso Muna was fined 100,000 yuan and will be deported after he is released from jail.
Courtesy:www.chinaview.cn
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