CID personnel arrest two fraud suspects, confiscate illegal substances

AMMAN — The Criminal Investigation Department’s intellectual property protection division personnel have arrested a suspect who had created a fake account on a social media website and used it to commit fraud through pretending he discovered a treatment for cancer, the Public Security Department (PSD) said Thursday.

In cooperation with the Jordan Food and Drug Administration, security personnel seized the item whose nature and production materials are unknown.

The suspect, who is wanted for eight cases, confessed to committing the crime with an accomplice who admitted to preparing the chemical compound for fraud purposes.

In another case, the division’s personnel seized 2,000 packs of medications  and cosmetics in a perfumery in Amman, according to a PSD statement.