Lucknow: Man held for duping people posing as NGO, MNC representatives

LUCKNOW: A fraudster who operated a well-oiled, Pan-India gang was busted by Sarojninagar police on Monday night.
The accused used to dupe individuals by posing as representatives of NGO and MNCs asking them to donate or invest and in return they will get a huge dividend.
The accused, Rajeev Arya (41), was arrested near Amausi airport on an informer's tip-off.
"In order to appear genuine, the accused used to hire youths who used to speak English fluently and later took the targets to classy hotels to dine them out and lure them with fake deals," said deputy commissioner of police, central zone, Aparna Rajat Kaushik.
"The accused used to defraud innocents showing them forged authority letters of prominent MNCs. The accused used to tell the victims that if they donated an amount of Rs 1 crore to an NGO or MNC proposed by them. Then will get Rs 15 crore in return after six months," said police.
SHO Sarojninagar, Santosh Kumar Arya said that the accused was running pan india gang and had duped several other victims.
The fraudster was nabbed after victim Karuna Shankar Upadhyaya was smitten by the lucrative deal and decided to invest in the deal and gave Rs 1 crore in a span of seven months.
However, when he did not get the returns as promised lodged a case with the police.