NASHIK: Two people, including a Nigerian national, have been arrested from Delhi by the cyber crime police for cheating a Nashik resident of Rs 19.6 lakh under the garb some business venture.
Deputy commissioner of police Sangramsing Nishandar said, “Based on electronic and other concrete evidences, the cyber crime police have arrested the suspects for cheating the complainant in the month of October. One of the suspects is a Nigerian, while the other is a resident of New Delhi.”
The suspects have been identified as Victor Dominic Okon (42) and Pawankumar Harkesh Bairava. They were arrested from a bank where they had come to withdraw the money deposited by the complainant.
The duo was presented before a local court that has remanded them in police custody till December 7. According to an official from cyber crime police, the complainant had alleged that he was cheated by three people.
“The complainant met a woman named Monika Singh (a fake person) on a dating app. Singh contacted the complainant on WhatsApp and while talking she informed that she was working with Bortad Pharmaceutical Company in Amsterdam as assistant production analyst. She also informed that her company required ‘Ogrinma Herbal Oil Extract’ a raw material imported from Indonesia,” the official said.
“Singh after winning the confidence of the complainant asked him to be part of the business and send the required material that can be procured from one Rajesh Nandi, a resident of Karnataka, at a lower rate and earn good profit. The complainant ordered the six liter material from the person and then travelled to Bangalore to meet the executive of the company as suggested by Singh to get the sample tested,” he added.
After being told that the sample was perfect Singh asked the complainant to buy the oil for the company. The complainant paid Rs 19.6 lakh to Nand after neither did he recive the oil nor the money. Realising that he has been cheated, the complainant lodged a police complaint.