Police arrest two Nigerian nationals and one Ghanaian for cyber fraud in India; recover fake passport of Bollywood star, Aishwarya Rai.
Police arrest two Nigerian nationals and one Ghanaian for cyber fraud in India; recover fake passport of Bollywood star, Aishwarya Rai
The accused are ‘cyber criminals who, along with their other associates, have been involved in various frauds and have duped gullible people on matrimonial sites, dating apps, social media sites, through lottery fraud, etc,’ the police said on Friday, December 16, 2022.
The police recovered large amounts of fake currency notes with a face value of ?10.90 crore, as well as USD 3,000 (around ?2.5 lakh) and 10,500 pounds sterling (around ?10.60 lakh) from the possession of the suspects.
They also recovered several fake passports from the suspects, including one made in the name of Bollywood actress and former Miss World, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
Since November, the suspects stopped all contact with Gupta after which he realised that he was duped.
“When I went to convert the dollars that I was given, they turned out to be fakes. On December 7, I submitted a complaint to the police in the matter,” said the colonel.
DCP Verma said the police teams arrested the three suspects from Supertech Upcountry, Greater Noida.
“The investigators followed the trail of online transactions and nabbed the suspects. They have been identified as Eke Uferemvukwe, Okoloi Damion (both from Nigeria) and Adwin Collines (from Ghana),” Verma said.
“During interrogation, they revealed that they used to look for vulnerable people and targeted them based on their interests. They used to dupe people in the name of customs clearance, and had also set up fake accounts on matrimonial sites and social media sites to dupe the gullible,” he added.
The suspects have been arrested under section 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), 471 (using a forged document or electronic record as genuine), 489 a(counterfeiting currency), 34 (common intention) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
