Five, including four Nigerians, arrested for duping ex-Army nurse of Rs 41.70 lakh

Addl CP Crime Sunil Fulari, DCP Vivek Masal and staff of Cyber Police with arrested accused persons.

Staff Reporter :

The police arrested the fraudsters from New Delhi

Cyber police of Nagpur arrested five fraudsters including four Nigerian nationals from New Delhi for allegedly duping a retired Army nurse of Rs 41.70 lakh. The police also attached their bank accounts with balance of Rs 18 lakh. A total of 13 mobile phones, 18 credit cards and Rs 16,040 cash was seized by the police during the raid, police official said. According to police, the Cyber police was probing the case of the fraud. Reena Samsher Singh (56), an ex-Army nurse and a resident of Jai Bajrang Society, Manav Sewa Nagar, told police that some persons with pseudo names befriended with her on Facebook.

Reena, who stays alone in the house, shared her cell number with one of them who claimed to be from United States of America. He told her that he would send her gifts and gold ornaments. After gaining her confidence, they started asking her to deposit money in different bank accounts for releasing the gifts. Between July 15 and September 15 this year, Reena started receiving calls from cell numbers 7627949029, 8448362798 and 8791680389. She then started receiving WhatsApp messages with some documents asking her to pay the fine.

They then threatened her to implicate her in a money laundering case if she failed to pay the money. Due to fear, she deposited Rs 41.70 lakh in different accounts in Vijaya Bank, Canara Bank, UCO Bank and HDFC Bank. Having realised that she was being defrauded by cyber criminals, she approached the police with her husband, who is an ex-Army official. After registering the case under Sections 419, 420 and 468 of the Indian Penal Code, read with Section 66(d) of Information Technology Act, the Cyber police checked details of the eight bank accounts in which Reena had deposited the money. The police also studied CCTV footage of the bank when the accused came to withdrew money. After initial probe, the zeroed in on Nigerian locality in Delhi and arrested the accused persons. Arrested accused have been identified Michael Scott Kolain (23), Idu Dollar Ukeke (32), both residents of Chandan Vihar, New Delhi; Imu Sunday Azudaike (32), a resident of Mohan Garden, Delhi; Kelvin Neke (29), a resident of Vipin Garden, New Delhi - all are Nigerian nationals and as Sujeet Dilip Tiwari (25), a resident of Patel Nagar, Dwarka, New Delhi.

Under the guidance of Additional CP Crime Sunil Fulari, the arrest was made by Police Inspector Ashok Bagul, PI Raghvendrasingh Kshirsagar, API Vishal Mane and staff including Sanjay Tiwari, Rahul Dhote, Ajay Pawar, Dipak Chauhan and Bablu Thakur. Police officials have appealed to the citizens remain alert and not to fall prey to such fraudsters on social media as cybercriminals were using all tools at hand to dupe citizens.