Goemkarponn Desk
PANAJI: Employee of a foreign IT company who was presently working from home at Dona Paula was cheated to the tune of Rs 1.21 crore by cyber fraudsters by impersonating as Mumbai Police and CBI officials.
A complaint to this effect was filed by the victim Surya Singh Lawande at the Cyber Crime Cell of Goa Police. Acting on the complaint two persons were nabbed by Cyber Crime Cell of Goa Police from Rajkot, Gujarat.
The accused are identified as Ravindra Nandaniya and Vimal Der. The duo got in touch with Lawande posing as police and CBI officials. They told him that someone has used his Aadhar card to procure a SIM card.
They scared him by telling him that the mobile number has been used to commit several frauds due to which several FIRs have been filed against him. They connected with the victim on Skype using Mumbai police uniform and asked him to give them money if he wanted to come out of the tangle.
As per the complainant, on March 15 and March 16, the duo made him deposit money to the tune of Rs 1.21 crore in various bank accounts. Upon realising that he was cheated Lawande filed a complaint with the cybercrime cell.
The Cyber Crime Cell sleuths kept a vigil on the accounts in which the money was transferred and traced the duo to Rajkor, Gujarat through their account in which Rs 19 lakh were deposited.
