It's not the value of the fraud. We pay our taxes to fund the police force. They have a legally bound duty to investigae it...
^^^ This. I'm surprised that people suggest that you should just roll over and accept your fate.
This piece of trash stole from you and even if the police don't have adequate proof for a conviction, they need to have this turd on file, because as sure as the Lord made little green apples, he'll be doing it again - he has got a taste of how easy it is.
If nothing else you need a crime number so you can try to get info from his bank.
I have just had the laugh of my life....the action fraud hotline offers language services, and of all things basa jawa....they have no money to investigate fraud by translate the website into boso jowo.....for those interested, we have one national language here in Indonesia, bahasa Indonesia which is pretty close to Malay language...in the whole 16000 odd islands there are well over 700 languages and javanese is just one of them. We speak it at home, mixed with bahasa Indo and English, but for the police to have a translator on hand when they have no money is absolute madness.