A waitress at the Victoria Hospital, Candos reported a case of fraud against Raoul Goolaup, known as Avish. He is already on parole for the same crime committed against three people in the North of the country earlier this year. Raoul Goolaup, aged 30, who poses as a pilot for an aviation company, is actively sought by the Moka police.
It is in a complaint around 1 pm on Friday, December 16 at the police station of Moka that this 46 year old resident of Morcellement Côte d’Or, related her misadventure. In the moult details, she related that her son of 22 years had made the knowledge of a named Avish in 2021. This individual presented himself as a pilot for an aviation company.
On August 18, 2021, this man came to her home dressed in a pilot’s uniform and claimed that he could find a job for her son in Dubai. Thus, the fifty-year-old had given him a sum of Rs 170 000. She said that she had also given two guitars and an amplifier worth Rs 47,000, which belong to her son, to this man on loan.
On several occasions, she had contacted this man named Avish to know the status of her son’s efforts to get a job in Dubai. But he always found excuses to justify the delay. At the beginning of this year, said the resident of Cote d’Or, she learned from the newspapers that this man, whom she knows as Avish, is actually called Raoul Goolaup, that he lives in Camp Raffia Poste de Flacq and that he was wanted for several cases of fraud.
After being released on bail, Raoul Goolaup had only reimbursed him the sum of Rs 10 000, and still owes him an amount of Rs 208 000. Raoul Goolaup was arrested by the men of inspector Thakoor of the Criminal Investigation Division of Grand-Baie in April of this year. He had swindled three people, an architect, a bartender and a contractor of Rs 79,000, Rs 72,000 and Rs 89,000 respectively. He had claimed to these men that he could get them air tickets at promotional prices.
