Noida: Uttar Pradesh’s cybercrime police have arrested a 38-year-old man with formal education up to third standard for duping a businessman of Rs 1.68 crore on the pretext of doing business with a Canadian firm. Officials gave this information on Thursday.
The fraudster used Facebook to network with gullible people involved in pharmaceutical production and posed as a middleman, luring them with handsome monetary returns.
According to the police, the accused was arrested from Ballia district in February 2021 by a team of Cyber Crime Police Station, Noida, probing the case registered on the complaint of a businessman living in Omaxe NRI City, Greater Noida.
“Accused Durga Prasad Mishra alias Rajit Mishra, along with his associates, posed as a middleman for a Canada based pharmaceutical company. Mishra told the complainant that this Canadian firm was in need of ‘Karwin Nuts’, Which is an expensive product used for the manufacture of some medicines. If they can buy the product, they will sell it to the Canadian company at a good margin,” PTI quoted Inspector Rita Yadav, in-charge of the cyber crime police station, as saying. quoting said.
“However, in reality there was no such Canadian company. The entire story of product requirement was meant to lure the complainant, who fell for the fabrication and suffered a loss of Rs 1.68 crore,” Yadav said.
He said that an FIR was registered under IPC sections 420 (cheating), 467, 468, 471 (all relating to forgery of documents) and provisions of the Information Technology Act and after investigation the police arrested Mishra who was living in Ballia. was hiding.
During preliminary interrogation, Mishra told the police that he was a resident of Ballia and educated till class 3, but had been indulging in online frauds, for which he used social media platforms like Facebook.
“The accused stated that he started a company named DP Enterprises in Ankleshwar, Gujarat in 2018 with two more partners – Sachin alias Lallan Pandey and Santosh Tiwari. For this company he opened a current bank account in which the fraudulently earned money was transferred.” ” He added.
According to the police, so far transactions worth Rs 30 lakh have been detected in this account from different sources.
Cyber officer SP Singh said that further investigation is on in the matter and search is on to arrest other associates of accused Mishra.
Police said the accused was produced before a court on Thursday from where he was sent to judicial custody.
with PTI inputs
The fraudster used Facebook to network with gullible people involved in pharmaceutical production and posed as a middleman, luring them with handsome monetary returns.
According to the police, the accused was arrested from Ballia district in February 2021 by a team of Cyber Crime Police Station, Noida, probing the case registered on the complaint of a businessman living in Omaxe NRI City, Greater Noida.
“Accused Durga Prasad Mishra alias Rajit Mishra, along with his associates, posed as a middleman for a Canada based pharmaceutical company. Mishra told the complainant that this Canadian firm was in need of ‘Karwin Nuts’, Which is an expensive product used for the manufacture of some medicines. If they can buy the product, they will sell it to the Canadian company at a good margin,” PTI quoted Inspector Rita Yadav, in-charge of the cyber crime police station, as saying. quoting said.
“However, in reality there was no such Canadian company. The entire story of product requirement was meant to lure the complainant, who fell for the fabrication and suffered a loss of Rs 1.68 crore,” Yadav said.
He said that an FIR was registered under IPC sections 420 (cheating), 467, 468, 471 (all relating to forgery of documents) and provisions of the Information Technology Act and after investigation the police arrested Mishra who was living in Ballia. was hiding.
During preliminary interrogation, Mishra told the police that he was a resident of Ballia and educated till class 3, but had been indulging in online frauds, for which he used social media platforms like Facebook.
“The accused stated that he started a company named DP Enterprises in Ankleshwar, Gujarat in 2018 with two more partners – Sachin alias Lallan Pandey and Santosh Tiwari. For this company he opened a current bank account in which the fraudulently earned money was transferred.” ” He added.
According to the police, so far transactions worth Rs 30 lakh have been detected in this account from different sources.
Cyber officer SP Singh said that further investigation is on in the matter and search is on to arrest other associates of accused Mishra.
Police said the accused was produced before a court on Thursday from where he was sent to judicial custody.
with PTI inputs