Three Indian based Nigerians have been arrested for various
offences, with two of them remanded in prison after being charged with fraud. One
of them identified as Eistabot was arrested Saturday for beating up
a cab driver over the fare in Greater Noida in Utta Pradesh. He is a B Tech
student at a private engineering college in the area.
Two other Nigerians were arrested by a
joint team of Delhi and Goa Police for cheating several people after
befriending them on social networking sites.
Chukwuma Collins, 35, and Nicodemus Obinna, 27 used to
befriend people on Facebook and then ask for money to send “necessary items” to
their family members in UK, according to a report by The Times of India
Police said that the men used to fabricate stories
about the poor conditions of their family members living in western countries
and ask the victims to help them with money. After receiving the money they
broke all contact with the victims.
Goa Police had received a complaint from a woman, Bridget
Fernandes Rai, who claimed to have been cheated of around Rs 8 lakh, about
$12,000, by the duo. She said that she had befriended Collins on Facebook
and after a few days of chatting he started calling her.
Rai told the police that Collins started referring to her as
his sister and asked for Rs 8 lakh to transfer some money and jewelry through a
courier to his relatives.
He claimed that the courier was stuck in legal processes at
the customs department in Goa and he needed to get it delivered quickly as
his wife had expired. Rai agreed to transfer the money to his account. As soon
as the money was transferred, Collins “disappeared”, Rai alleged.
“A team from Goa Police approached us in Delhi after a
technical surveillance pointed to role of some people operating from here. A
joint team was formed to track the accused. The duo was arrested from Mahavir
Enclave in south Delhi,” said Ravindra Yadav, joint commissioner, crime.
Collins and Obinna have confessed to their crime and
disclosed that they had cheated several others in a similar way. Three laptops,
data cards, 36 SIM cards and 26 mobile phones were recovered from them, said
The Times.
During interrogation, the duo claimed that they had arrived
in India five years ago for business and then started cheating people using
different techniques.
The accused were produced in a Dwarka court and taken on a
transit remand by Goa Police.
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