Story of Ingenious Trick te Obtain Money ingenious method of defrauding the Customs is reported to have been discovered with the arrest of 8. Y. Soo, the proprietor of a Customs brokerage business and a former employee of the well Known firm of James McGill & Ca.
It fs alleged that Soo had connived with several clerks in the Customs and that these, too, will be brought) to book as soon as they are sted. Soo will be brought' up the Provisional Court to-da; 'The plan it is said could oily' into operation with' in the Customs service and' for this} reason it is believed that the police investigation. will result in a widespread group being brought to book, The scheme. was said to be that when assessment values had been. established by one department, the: [papers disappeared on their way to the paying department and new: ames were substituted. However, the new papers carried. the sume: figures. as the others, only. the decimal point had been' moved one figure-to the left which resalted in tone tenth of the correct duty being. paid, the other nine tenths going, presumably, into the pockets of the' gang.
In addition to the moving. of the decimal point for the purpose of the fraud, the gang had an outlet in ease suspicions were aroused, that the affair was a typographical error on the part of the stenographer.
The Police "caught on" to the iden and watched it in operation for a sufficient: time to assure themselves that the stenographer: was not in the habit of making errors in the use of the decimal point, except in certain instances.
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