The city police busted a criminal gang led by a Delhi-based Nigerian man which cheated a number of gullible Naga women of over Rs 35 lakh by falsely promising cheap iPhones and prize money for winning
The city police busted a criminal gang led by a Delhi-based Nigerian man which cheated a number of gullible Naga women of over Rs 35 lakh by falsely promising cheap iPhones and prize money for winning lotteries.
The racket was recently busted by the Nagaland police with the help of their Delhi counterparts after a number of women filed multiple complaints at a police station in Dimapur about having been defrauded of their hard-earned money by a “foreigner” who contacted them on the Internet, willing to sell them high-end electronic gadgets at cheap rates and promising them prize money for lotteries they were told they had won.
Investigators claim, while probing the case, they came across a smart modus operandi as part of which the gang used multiple bank accounts “sold” by locals to the Nigerian. He used to ask his victims to deposit the money in these accounts to claim the prize and later withdrew it from various ATMs.
A Nagaland police team, which recently travelled to Delhi to probe the case and arrest the kingpin identified as C. Nwaneri (34), has filed at least three FIRs and found these women have been duped of over Rs 35 lakh. Nwaneri was assisted in the crime by three locals, including a chef working at an eatery in a popular Delhi mall, all of whom had “sold” their accounts to the foreigner for Rs 22,000-Rs 25,000.
“We have seized 42 SIM cards, nine ATM cards, six phones, five bank passbooks and a laptop after searches were carried out at the residence of Nwaneri who lives in Bawana area of Delhi,” investigating officer Dinesh Gupta said.
