Racket of Cheats Headed by Nigerian National Busted
Crime Branch has
arrested four notorious cheats in a fake
trade scam who had cheated many gullible people all over India on the
false promise of making huge profit in the trade of Biognes (herb seed), used in the production of medicines for the
treatment of HIV +ve patients and other incurable diseases.
ARRESTED PERSONS:-
1. Ms. Jyoti (40 yrs) w/o Gulshan r/o Pilkhan Chowk, Maidan
Garhi, Delhi.
2. Ms. Abbas Aishat (22 yrs) d/o Abbas R/o Lagos State, Nigeria,
presently residing at Village-Chhatarpur, Delhi.
3. Richardson Ohijeagbon @ Eric John s/o Sh. Ohijeagbon (28
years) r/o Amegon Street Ubogwo, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, presently
residing at Village Rajpur, Delhi.
4. Daniel Okal S/O Sh. Okal (28 years) r/o
Amegon Street Ubogwo, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, presently residing at
Village Rajpur, Delhi.
INCIDENT:-
Mr. Mahesh Mistri,resident of
Rewari, Haryana, a businessman engaged in Real Estate business, came in contact
around one and half month back with one Miss Martha Luis through Facebook for
internet friendship and they exchanged their phone numbers. Miss Martha Luis
posed herself as Doctor serving as General Manager in Biogenic Pharmaceutical
Company of UK. She told that previously she was purchase manager in the same
company and used to purchase one packet of biogenic seeds from New Delhi based
Monika Sharmafor Rs. 74,000/- and gave to company at the price of 4189 dollars
per packet but at present she is general manager and cannot purchase it now by
herself.She further lured the victim that if he purchases that seed from Monika
Sharma on lower price then she will help in selling it to her company at higher
price and in this manner both of them can make huge profit. Martha Luis
promised to give 30% of the profit to victim. She also informed that she is
widow (while the victim is also a widower). At this point, intimacy developed
between victim and Martha Luis. Due to intimacy, Mahesh Mistri got trapped by
accused persons. She further introduced one Mr. John Eric as Purchase Manager
of her company visiting New Delhi and one Mr. Cofe as the Testing Officer of
the company, present in New Delhi nowadays. She provided contact numbers of Mr.
Eric, Mr. Cofe Favour Bride and Ms. Monika Sharma and placed fake purchasing
order through e-mail to victim.
On 7/12/2015,the victim alongwith
his other friends visited Delhi and contacted Ms. Monika Sharma and purchased
10 packets of biogenic seeds for Rs. 7.4 lac and contacted Mr. Eric John, who
called them to meet in a hotel but did not meet them with an excuse that he had
gone back to U.K. Consulate lounge and asked to meet him on 8/12/2015. On the
next day, victim met Mr. CofeFavour Bride in a prominent hotel at Green Park,
New Delhi and tested the sample of biogenic seeds and found it O.K. in test. When
victim asked for payment of already purchased 10 packets to solemnize the said
deal, he asked to supply the consignment of minimum 50 packets. For this,
victim had to purchase 40 more packets costing Rs. 35 lac approx. On this, he
felt that he has been cheated and got registered his case at Ahmedabad vide FIR
No.103/2015 dated 17/12/2015 u/s 419/420/120 IPC & 66 I.T. Act, PS Crime
Branch, Ahmedabad City, Gujrat. Meanwhile, he asked for help from Delhi Police
also to nab the culprits.
TEAM
AND OPERATION:-
Information was received in Crime
Branch through Mr. Mahesh Mistri that the racket indulged in cheating with
several innocent persons on the pretext of false promise of trade of Biognes (Herb Seed), used in the production of medicines for the
treatment of HIV +ve patients and other incurable diseases and accused
persons had cheated many innocent people all over India. Accordingly, a team
led by Inspr. AtulTyagi, and comprising of SINagender Singh, SI Sanjay Kumar,
HCHamender, HC Virender, Ct. Surender, Ct Brijpal and Ct Rakesh and W/HC Leena
was constituted to nab the criminals under the close supervision of ACP KPS
Malhotra andunder close supervision of DCP Bhisham Singh and under overall
guidance of Addl.CPAlok Kumar. The mobile numbers were analyzed and sources
were deployed. The efforts made by the team bore fruit and the four accused
persons running the racket have been nabbed from Select City Mall, Saket and
Neb Sarai area of Delhi on 23rd December, 2015. During raid accused
Ms. Jyoti and Abbas Aihsat were arrested from Select City Mall, Saket and at
their instance on further raid on the same day other two accused Richardson
Ohijeagbon@ Eric John and Daniel Okal werearrested from Neb Sarai area of South
Delhi.
In order to avoid the arrest during
police raid, accused Richardson Ohijeagbon@ Eric John jumped into the pond of
village Neb Sarai in the night ignoring the cold weather of December whereas
another accusedDaniel Okal hid himself under the leaves of big tree and mud in
a vacant premises but even then police team continued the chase and
successfully arrested them.
MODUS OPERENDI:-
Accused used to target such
persons who are looking for a female friend on Facebook and having good money
resources. First they trap such persons through Facebook as they have created
an ID with good looking female picture as DP in the name of Martha Luis. After
developing intimacy on friendship site, they used to lure that person in a fake trade scam in the name of Biognes (herb
seed) used in the production of medicines for the treatment of HIV +ve patients
and other incurable diseases. The accused persons had cheated many
innocent people not only all over India on the pretext of false promise of
trade of Biognes (Herb Seed) but
they have also trapped several persons ofcountries such as U.A.E etc.
The
details of other victims are being verified through bank statements of accused
persons and CDR analysis. GujratPolice has been informed regarding arrest of
the accused persons for further investigation.
RECOVERY:-
·
84 packets of Biognes(Herb Seed).
·
8 mobile phones.
·
Other incriminating material.
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