Man lured with promise of sex, beaten up and robbed instead
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 20's on the WeChat application and was invited to a tryst with her at the Vina Residency apartments on Jalan Seri Taming.
The victim then met up with the woman at her apartment unit and they proceeded into a bedroom.
However, the woman told the victim to have a bath first before getting intimate with her.
Kajang police chief ACP Ahmad Dzaffir Mohd Yusoff (pix) said today that while the victim was having a bath, he heard a knock on the door and on opening it, he was confronted by six men armed with a piece of wood.
He 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 choked by a man.
He said the friend also received a video of the victim being assaulted and negotiating the payment of RM40,000 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.
Ahmad Dzaffir said acting on the information received 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.
He said two of the suspects tested positive for drug abuse.
The suspects are being held under a remand order for investigations.