2023-06-23 13:10:00
A case of possible “conspiracy” and scam alerted the New Delhi police this week, now on the trail of a man who managed to stay for almost two years in a five-star hotel in the Indian capital, and who disappeared without paying the bill, which amounts to $60,000 .
Ankush Dutta checked in on May 30, 2019 for one night in one of the most luxurious hotels in a hospital complex in the Indian capital, near New Delhi International Airport, and checked out on January 22, 2021, without paying a single bill authorities reported this week.
The scam was discovered during record checking at the Hotel Roseatewho filed a complaint against the guest, the front desk manager, and others suspected of helping the guest evade payments.
“Hotel staff allegedly falsified, deleted, added, and manipulated a large number of records in said guest’s account on the hotel’s software system.”indicates the complaint document from the authorities collected by the Indian Express newspaper.
According to the investigation, in the 603 days that Dutta stayed at the hotel, he managed to get around some of the hotel’s policies with the help of the head of the Reception Department, Prem Prakash, who had access to the computer system to monitor and change the rates of the guests. customers.
As per hotel policy, if a guest’s non-payment charges of Rs 50,000 (approximately $610) cannot be resolved within 72 hours, the CEO and CFO must be informed for instructions. .
But Prakash not only did not inform his superiors of Dutta’s non-payment, but also helped hide his pending accounts, according to the police report published by the outlet.
Authorities assume that, with the help of other colleagues, Prakash helped move Dutta from one room to another and found ways to limit his stay to 308 days, according to the complaint filed with authorities.
“They created several false and fraudulent outstanding invoices to benefit Dutta in various ways, such as removing room nights from his invoices, transferring his debits to other guests’ invoices, incorporating his name into other guests’ settled invoices, etc.”Pick up the complaint.
Dutta also handed over several fake checks to record payments for his stay ranging from 700,000 rupees ($8,500) to 10,000,000 rupees ($12,000).
“The guest and staff resorted to various ways to avoid paying the bills. They owe the hotel more than $60,000. They deleted entries, falsified reports, delivered counterfeit checks and documents, and misled the hotel by misusing its electronic system.”said a senior police officer, according to the Indian Express.
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