Team Goemkarponn
MAPUSA: Under the guise of a digital arrest, the Cyber Crime Police have detained three individuals for allegedly defrauding a Siolim resident of Rs one crore.
Police claim that Bernadette Severina Fernandes, 68, of Valadares Wado, Marna, Siolim, filed a complaint alleging that the accused pretended to be the Delhi Crime Branch’s police inspector between December 26 and 28 and told her that a police case had been filed against her.
He forced her to transfer Rs one crore across three separate bank accounts using bogus letters he provided her in the name of the Supreme Court of India.
On January 11, 2025, a complaint was filed, and the accused Visakh R, 28, and Muhammadshan, 29, both from Kollam, Kerala, were taken into custody in Kerala and transported to Goa on a transit warrant.
Roshan Mehboob Shaikh of Chittur, Andhra Pradesh, was later taken into custody by the cybercrime police. Shaikh managed the layer one mule account, which involved the transfer of Rs 40 lakhs. He was the mule accounts agent.