Invite turns to theft

> Man assaulted after being lured with sex on WeChat

KAJANG: A 22-year-old man, who was lured with sex by a woman on a social media chat application, was stripped nude, beaten up and robbed instead by a group of men at an apartment here on Sunday.

The assailants also took photos of the victim in the nude and posted it to his friend.

Police said the victim had befriended the woman, who is in her 20s, on the WeChat application and was invited to a tryst with her at the Vina Residency apartments in Jalan Seri Taming.

The victim met up with the woman at her apartment unit and they proceeded to enter the bedroom.

However, the woman told the victim to take a bath first before getting intimate with her.

Kajang police chief ACP Ahmad Dzaffir Mohd Yusoff said yesterday that while the victim was having a bath, he heard a knock on the door and upon opening it, he was confronted by six men, one armed with a piece of wood.

Ahmad Dzaffir said the assailants accused the victim of raping the woman and assaulted him.

“The woman also accused him of raping her and the men beat him up with a piece of wood. They stripped him nude, took a video of him and threatened to circulate the footage on social media if he did not pay them RM40,000,” he said.

Ahmad Dzaffir said a friend of the victim alerted the police at about 4.30pm after he received the nude photo of the victim who was tied up and being choked by a man.

He said the friend also received a video of the victim being assaulted and trying to negotiate the RM40,000 payment with the assailants.

Ahmad Dzaffir said the victim was relieved of his cellphone, jewellery and other valuables worth about RM8,000.

He said later, the friend received a call from the victim who told him that he had been freed by the assailants.

Acting on the information given, the Kajang CID team managed to track down the suspects before arresting a woman and four men aged between 20 and 25 in Bandar Kinrara, Puchong.

Ahmad Dzaffir said two of the suspects tested positive for drug abuse.

The suspects are being held under a remand order for investigations.