2023-06-23 14:22:52
A case of possible “conspiracy” and fraud 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 from the Indian capital, and who disappeared without paying the bill, which amounts to 60,000 dollars.
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 the New Delhi international airport, and retired on January 22, 2021, without paying a single bill, the authorities reported this week.
The scam was discovered during a record check at the Roseate Hotel, who 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 in the hotel’s software system,” indicates the document denouncing 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 circumvent some of the hotel’s policies with the help of the head of the hotel. Reception Department, Prem Prakash, who had access to the computer system to monitor and change customer rates.
In accordance with hotel policy, if a guest’s unpaid charges for an amount of Rs 50,000 (about $610) fail to resolve within 72 hours, the chief executive officer and financial officer should 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.
The authorities assume that with the help of other colleagues Prakash helped move Dutta from room to room and found ways to shorten 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, transfer your debits to other guests’ bills, add your name to other guests’ settled bills, etc”, Pick up the complaint.
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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,” he said. a senior police officer, according to Indian Express.
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