20/12/2017
PUNE: The Pune
Police cyber crime cell made a series of arrests in the past week. Of the five
cases, accused in four cases were arrested the cyber cell from the national
capital region (NCR). The cases involved fraud through job offers, loan and
matrimonial sites, according to Sudhir Hiremath, deputy commissioner of police,
cyber crime and economic offences wing (EOW).
According to officials, a 65-year-old man from Thergaon was
duped by a Nigerian national of Rs.18,50,000 under the pretext of marriage,
according to the police. John Oriekoaose, a 35-year-old man from Nigeria was
arrested from Old Mahavirnagar in Delhi by the cyber cell. Oriekoaose was
living in the country on an expired visa when he created a fake profile on
jeevansaathi.com and approached the 65-year-old under the alias of Francis
Mercy, according to the police.
“Oriekoaose has been in the country since 2014. His visa
was extended four times. He came on a tourist visa in India and got the idea
committing the crime from his friends working in the same field,” Hiremath
said. The police are investigating the educational qualification of the
Nigerian national who was arrested on December 15.
Under the name of Mercy, Oriekoaose fooled the complainant
into believing that Mercy had come to inherit a fortune after her father's
demise and that she wanted to send the inheritance to the complainant through
courier. The complainant ended up paying Rs.18,50,000 in the process of
claiming the courier, according to the police. Oriekoaose siphoned the money
under various aliases including bank manager, reserve bank representative and
customs officer. The police recovered a laptop, 34 sim cards, 27 debit
cards, 3 PAN cards, four dongles and seven mobile phones, according to the
police. Oriekoaose learned about the tricks of the trade from his friends,
according to the police. The police suspect that the Nigerian national may have
duped people to the tune of Rs.1 crore. Wakad police are further investigating
the case.
Oriekoaose was named in the case filed under Sections 420 and
66(c)(d) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The technical analysis in the case was
carried out by assistant police inspector (API) Sagar Panmand.
-Nitin Satsingh Ratan, 48, was arrested on December 6 by the
cyber cell from Palam Vihar in Gurugram, Haryana for duping a resident of Pune
of Rs.8,50,000 through multiple transfers to various bank accounts under the
fake promise of a job at a foreign-based hotel.
-Roshan Narayan, 20, a resident of Sonia Vihar in New Delhi
was arrested on December 9 and Yashpal Balwinder Singh, 23, a resident of Karna
in Haryana was arrested on December 11 for duping a city youth of Rs.1,85,000
under the pretext of granting loan and life insurance.
-Ashishkumar Singh, 26, was arrested from Sardana in
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh on December 13 for duping a resident of Pune of Rs.11,400
under the pretext of offering a job through a job portal.
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