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Jaipur: Five days after arrested four people including three\nNigerian nationals and a woman belonging to Northeast India for duping a CRPF\njawan of Rs 20 lakh, the police revealed that the gang was operating about 80\nbank accounts. The police have found transactions of Rs 50 crore. The accounts\nhave been seized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The seizure suggests that the gang had duped several people\nwith different modus operandi in many states. The woman befriended people through\nsocial media and then duped them. The gang was operating a bogus fast food shop\nin Vikaspuri area of Delhi. They were produced in a court on Tuesday. The court\nremanded them in judicial custody. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The police have seized 25 mobiles phones, seven Point of\nSale (PoS) machines, 35 ATM cards, passbooks of 15 bank accounts, 13 cheque\nbooks, two laptops and 25 SIM cards. In the laptop, the police have found bogus\ncustom department and income tax certificates which they used for defrauding\npeople. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt has come up during investigation that the gang duped\npeople in many different ways. They had sent messages to 5 lakh people recently\ntrying to dupe them on the pretext that they had won prices,\u201d said a police\nofficer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At least 15 more victims have come forward and told the\npolice that they were duped by the gang. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The gang was busted after CRPF jawan belonging to Sikar district in\nRajasthan registered an FIR. The woman befriended him WhatsApp and Facebook. She\nsent some air tickets and told Suresh, currently posted in Telangana, that she\nwould be travelling to India with US$50,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Nigerian nationals \u2013 posing as customs officials \u2013 called Suresh and\ntold him that his friend \u2013 the woman \u2013 was in their custody because she was\ncarrying foreign currency without valid documents. In order to release her,\nthey demanded money. Suresh deposited about Rs 20 lakh over a period of seven\ndays in the bank accounts provided by the gang members. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jaipur: Five days after arrested four people including three Nigerian nationals and a woman belonging to Northeast India for duping a CRPF jawan of Rs 20 lakh, the police revealed that the gang was operating about 80 bank accounts. The police have found transactions of Rs 50 crore. The accounts have been seized. The seizure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n