Nigerian gang busted for cheating worth Rs 1.97 Crores

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Mon, Aug 14, 2017, 05:10 PM

Nigerian gang busted for cheating worth Rs 1.97 Crores

Mumbai, Aug 14: The cyber crime police have arrested a Nigerian gang for cheating a Bandra senior citizen of Rs 1.97 crores here on Sunday.

Police found 108 fake accounts opened in various banks in Mumbai using fake PAN.

Coming to the matter, The victim 72-year-old Bandra resident was duped by a Facebook "friend from the US" with the promise of huge profit in an investment scheme in Afghanistan.

The investigation led the police to Delhi, where they arrested Mangal Bishnoi, Amit Agarwal, Sameer Merchant alias Karan Sharma, Jitendra Rathod and Paresh Nisband into whose accounts huge money was transferred by the Bandra resident.

During interrogations, police found the gang had opened fake accounts in various banks in Mumbai and Delhi.

Further investigations led us to Mohammed Arif Shaikh a, resident of Naya Nagar. We picked him up and found several discriminating documents and 11 PAN cards from his office. He is an expert in making fake PAN cards. We are probing how he made these fake PAN cards and with whose help," said a senior officer.

Using these PAN cards, the accused had opened 108 accounts in various banks, which police have frozen. "We have frozen these accounts, which have nearly Rs 1 crore balance in total," added another police officer.

The accused transferred all the money to other accounts, from where it has already been withdrawn.