Man charged with cheating 5 people on Carousell over Man U vs Inter Milan tickets
Manchester United fans waiting to get a glimpse of the players on July 21, the day after the team's match with Inter Milan. Alamshakur Ramjansha allegedly cheated five people into paying for tickets to the match he never delivered.
SINGAPORE — When the highly popular Singapore leg of the International Champions Cup (ICC) kicked off last month, a 24-year-old man allegedly listed cheaper tickets for the football match between England's Manchester United and Italy’s Inter Milan on e-marketplace Carousell.
However, Alamshakur Ramjansha is then said to have disappeared after people transferred deposit payments to his bank account.
On Thursday (Aug 1), he was charged in court with five counts of cheating, involving S$1,900 in total.
Court documents showed that on July 20 this year, the day of the match at the National Stadium, Alamshakur allegedly tricked five victims into believing he had Category 1 tickets.
They then electronically transferred between S$225 and S$450 to him for the tickets.
He is accused of duping them at several locations, such as in the vicinity of Segar Road, North Bridge Road and Woodlands Avenue 7.
Preliminary investigations revealed that Alamshakur is believed to be involved in more than 10 cases of e-commerce scams, amounting to at least S$3,800, the police said in a news release on Wednesday.
The police received several reports from victims in July. Officers from the Commercial Affairs Department then identified and arrested Alamshakur on Tuesday.
If convicted of cheating, he could be jailed up to 10 years and fined. As he had breached a prison remission order when he allegedly committed the offences, he could be jailed for another 51 days.
He was remanded and will return to court on Aug 27.
In an unrelated case, the police said last Saturday (July 27) that they had arrested a 36-year-old man in relation to the cheating allegations involving the former manager of Joseph Schooling’s swimming school.
Several people have claimed that Mr Mohamed Hafidz Ja’afar took money from them, allegedly to sell them tickets to the same ICC match between Manchester United and Inter Milan, but never delivered them. The police did not name the man arrested.
