An Australian man who told the police he had been carjacked at knife-point faces charges of making the whole thing up to collect an insurance payout.
He claimed that the men threatened him with a knife and forced him to drive them around Perth for about two hours before kicking him out of the car.
The vehicle was recovered a day later in a suburb of the city and taken by investigators for forensic tests. The police now believe the man who lodged the complaint had fabricated the incident.
“Following the incident, the victim lodged an insurance claim with his vehicle insurer, which it will be alleged was a false claim,” a police spokesman said, WAToday reported.
The man, who has not been named in the reports, faces charges of creating false belief and attempt to gain benefit by fraud and is scheduled to make a court appearance on March 23.