Cyber fraud is prime job of Nigerian gang

Nagpur, October 13

The Nigerian gang, which duped innocent people on pretext of offering job in London, has been doing so to earn livelihood. Cyber frauds is their main job. They have been involved in conning people across nations and earning crores of rupees. The police has taken them in remand till October 19. Lokmat Times has exposed the matter on Tuesday. Additional police commissioner Sunil Phulari disclosed the information in a press conference.

A retired civil service nurse was duped on pretext of getting job in London in the month of July and she went into trauma after the incident. After her son and husband took her into confidence, she narrated the whole incident to them and later a police complaint was filed in Gittikhadan police station.

The Gittikhadan police with the help of bank accounts traced the culprit and arrested Sujit Tiwari (25) from Patel Nagar, Dwarka and four Nigerian nationals. Sujit had a mobile shop earlier, now he sells mobile by going door-to-door. He got attached to the gang to earn money. He registered fake companies and opened banks accounts. The Nigerian nationals have eight bank accounts, which are in different states. The victim’s money used to get deposited in those accounts. The amount collected in this account, then used to be to get transferred into Tiwari’s account and then he use to keep his commission and pay the Nigerian nationals in cash.

The Gittikhadan police arrested Tiwari and then with his help identified the Nigerian nationals and arrested them with the help of Delhi police.

Police got details of Sujit’s five bank accounts, in which transactions amounting to `2.5 crores had taken place. The amount can be much more, once the police get details of all his bank accounts.

Nigerian citizens are involved in cyber fraud in large numbers. They use people like Sujit only for bank accounts. There are five-six Nigerian-dominated settlements in Mohan Garden area of Delhi, where cyber crimes years are flourishing from years. It is surprising to have such organised crime activities in country’s capital. The accused have been remanded to police custody till October 19, but they are not expecting to get any additional information from them. PI Ashok Bagul, Raghavendra Singh Kshirsagar, API Vishal Mane, Sanjay Tiwari, Rahul Dhote, Ajay Pawar, Deepak Chavan and Bablu Thakur worked on the operation under the guidance of additional police commissioner Sunil Phulari and deputy commissioner Vivek Masal.