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In a case of 60lakhs cyber fraud committed by posing as traders across the country andcheating by laying honey-trap, Crime Branch Jammu registers a formal case against the accused persons for duping the complainant- Nirmal Singh S/o Gurmail Singh R/o House No. 51, Sector No. 03 Nanak Nagar Jammu to the tune ofRs 60 Lakhs. Complainant was lured by fraudsters through one of his facebookfriend namely Ortz Nancy to enter into a business of Icheku Reserve Oil,costing Rs. 1,56,000/- per litre which according to her was urgently requiredby the US Army and by this way they both would profit immensely. Initially thecomplainant was told by the accused to contact some Agro Herbal Oil Company inMumbai to purchase two litres of the oil for sample purpose for which theaccused agreed to make payment of one litre herself to the tune Rs 1,56,000 andfor the other litre the complainant had to pay himself. The complainant wasinduced so much that he was made to believe that the Mumbai based Company isconstantly receiving payment for the supply of 173 litres of oil from theaccused persons, so he was made to make rest of the payments for procuring thesaid oil. Later the complainant deposited money to the tune of Rs 60 lakhs invarious Bank accounts of accused persons. The complainant was also made tobelieve that one of the accused is visiting to the complainant at Jammu, who was purportedly detained by Custom officials at IGI Airport, New Delhi, forwhich the complainant was made to pay a huge amount for the release of the socalled officials of Agro Herbal Oil Company.

On the basis of the complaint Crime Branch Jammu, tookcognizance  and initiated an enquiry and established that the complainant wasactually cheated by an organized gang of cyber fraudsters on the pretext ofsupplying Icheku Reserve Oil, for the so called US Army and was duped to thetune of Rs 60 lakhs.  Case has beenregistered and the investigation has been set in motion.


Publish Time: 21 August 2019
TP News

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