Saudi Arabia’s feared religious police arrested a local man who impersonated a prince from the Gulf kingdom to embezzle money from many women, mostly school teachers, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice seized the man following reports from several school teachers that he had fooled them to invest in a fake company he owns.
Commission members, recruiting one of his victims, caught the unnamed man while meeting that woman at a restaurant in Riyadh.
“When she gave him money, they were on him…he later confessed to have impersonating a prince and that he collected more than SR125,000 ($33,000) from his victims,” the Arabic language daily Sabq said.