Delhi Police IGI Airport Unit held two for allegedly duping persons
.New Delhi, March 26
The Delhi Police IGI Airport Unit held two for allegedly duping persons near the airport.
The accused have been identified as Ranjeet Kumar (38) of Malviya Nagar and Anurag Gupta (18) of Sangam Vihar.
DCP (IGI Airport) Rajeev Ranjan stated that the accused duped citizens posing as foreigners and involved a woman who acted a customs officer to charge customs charges and duped citizens.
As per the case details, a woman had filed a complaint through an email regarding cheating with her in the name of custom duty at IGI AIRPORT New Delhi. The complainant got a telephonic call from a person who introduced himself as Lorries Andrew from London. The complainant was told by him that he wanted to send some gift to her on his mother’s birthday. On 22.03.2021, she received a call from a woman namely Neha, who introduced herself as a custom officer and she demanded to transfer a sum of Rs. 1,50,000/- as duty on parcel sent by Lorries Andrew from London.
The officials added that the amount was asked to be deposited on the SCI Bank account of one Abhishek Gupta of Delhi. Accordingly, the complainant transferred Rs. 1,50,000 and Rs. 5,000 more for some other charges/duties, accordingly in the said bank account. Later the caller again asked for more money to be transferred in order to dispatch the parcel.
During the course of investigation, the IGI airport police collected all the relevant and material information from the bank account in which the money was transferred by the complainant. During course of enquiry, it was revealed that the alleged bank account has been opened a month back at SBI branch of Lajpat Nagar.
The police also found that the ATM cards and other documents with respect to the alleged account have been received by Ranjeet Kumar and Anurag Gupta. The police raided the possible hideouts of the accused . Both the accused persons were arrested and fake documents in the name of alleged bank account holder have also been recovered from their possession.
The police seized 10 Aadhar cards in different names and five recently opened bank accounts. The police also found one dozen of ATM cards of different banks and over a dozen of SIM cards from them.
Ranjeet Kumar allegedly worked on commission basis and provides accounts for such fraudulent transactions while Anurag Gupta assists Ranjeet Kumar in search of people who provide their accounts to online fraudsters on commission basis.
