A Nigerian and his local accomplice have been arrested in India for allegedly scamming several people, including a renowned doctor.
According to reports, Amra Chukbu Roland and his aide, one Homeri, were arrested by the UP Special Task Force (STF) on Saturday.
They were said to have defrauded several people to the tune of ₹ 70 crores [about N3,608,514,000] through online fraud.
Senior superintendent of police (SSP), STF Abhishek Singh said the duo kept changing their locations frequently, but the STF team arrested them from their Delhi hideout after tracking down their present location.
Singh said the STF team began tracking them after the doctor lodged an FIR against them on June 10 for cheating her of ₹1 crore in the name of offering her financial aid to organise free health camps.
The STF officials said the fraudsters took over ₹1 core from the doctor on the pretext of assisting her in organising health camps.
The SSP said the duo confessed during interrogation that they had swindled around ₹70 crore from at least 25 people in the past one year. He said the Nigerian national used his Indian aides to transfer the amount in different bank accounts opened through forged documents.
He said the Nigerian became friends with the woman through Facebook by posing as an England-based cardiologist Dr Steve George and offered to help in social work done by her.
“He befriended the woman doctor on Facebook and offered to help in social work. Later, he claimed to have sent her jewellery as a gift but it was seized by the customs officials at the airport. Rolland asked the woman to loan her Rs 2.5 lakh to be paid as fine for getting it released.
He asked her to deposit the money to the account of Hormi KC in Delhi. Rolland kept seeking money from the woman on various pretexts and this way took Rs 1 crore from her which were deposited in different bank accounts of the miscreant in the past four months,” said SSP STF.
The STF were tipped off about the miscreants’ arrival to the city by train and nabbed them as they deboarded at the station.
