Hyderabad: The Rachakonda Cybercrime police on Friday arrested one Nigerian national and two Indians on charges of cheating people in the name of sending funds for charity. The arrested persons were Obidimma Hillary (54) from Bengaluru and a native of Abuja in Nigeria, Lal David and Paukhawmuan alias Muan Lion Thang, residents of Bengaluru and natives of Mizoram. The kingpin of the gang, Niyibizi Egide, is absconding.

According to the police, the gang contacted random people on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram and said they had received huge money as funds for charity work from philanthropists, with which they wanted to help others.

“They told the victims they would transfer funds as US dollars to their bank accounts for taking up charity work in India. They then made the victims transfer funds to various bank accounts citing reasons like currency conversion, RBI clearance certificate and other such fake charges,” police said.

The gang collected bank accounts of several persons by paying them Rs 10,000 per account. Recently, a woman from Yapral was duped of Rs 23 lakh after which she approached the police.

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