A person has handed himself in after an elaborate supply rip-off allegedly fleeced greater than a dozen Victorians.
Between December 11 and January 21, victims had been focused by a person turning up at companies allegedly claiming he had a supply to drop off.
Nonetheless, the person then requested for funds as a requirement for handing over the objects.
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After telling the alleged victims he wanted to gather the products, the person then allegedly left and didn’t return.
On Thursday, police stated a 57-year-old man self-presented on the Sunshine Police station and has been charged with 22 counts of acquiring property by deception and two counts of making an attempt to acquire property by deception.
The companies hit by the alleged rip-off embody a bakery in Flemington, a Sydenham bottle store, a restaurant in Thornbury, a fish and chip store in Portarlington and an ice cream store in Dromana.
Incidents additionally occurred in St Albans, Sydenham, Prahran, Werribee, Gisborne, Pakenham, South Morang, Briar Hill and Seymour.
It was additionally reported that the person allegedly offered items at cut price costs earlier than leaving with money and never handing something over.
The 57-year-old has been remanded to look earlier than Sunshine Magistrates’ Court docket on March 20.
