A woman has been jailed over an international spiritual blessing scam in which elderly victims are lured into believing their relatives are possessed by evil spirits and will die unless they take part in fake rituals.

The sentence has brought police closer to dismantling the alleged multi-million dollar international fraud which has robbed people of their entire life savings. Strike Force Sentinal has since April been investigating eighty-nine “Chinese blessing scams” across Sydney.

Yuee Ruan was arrested at Sydney Airport in July. Credit: NSW Police

Yuee Ruan was sentenced in the local court to 14 months’ prison with a seven month non-parole period for a raft of fraud charges and for participating in a criminal group. One elderly woman was robbed of $130,000 she had saved for healt

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