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Nigerian held for conning city teacher of R18 lakh
Cyberabad sleuths arrested two persons - Ani John Ibuchi, 36, a Nigerian national and Bilal Khan Ahmed Khan Deshmukh, 33, of Mumbai for their involvement along with other absconding accused in cheating a school teacher from Gachibowli to the tune of Rs 18.11 lakh towards charges for delivery of a gift containing cash of 1.4 lakh GB Pounds sent on the victim’s name after a marriage proposal.
Hyderabad: Cyberabad sleuths arrested two persons - Ani John Ibuchi, 36, a Nigerian national and Bilal Khan Ahmed Khan Deshmukh, 33, of Mumbai for their involvement along with other absconding accused in cheating a school teacher from Gachibowli to the tune of Rs 18.11 lakh towards charges for delivery of a gift containing cash of 1.4 lakh GB Pounds sent on the victim’s name after a marriage proposal.
On June 8, a school teacher working for a city-based international school, lodged a complaint with police that she had deposited Rs 18.11 lakh in five installments in three Maharashtra-based ICICI Bank accounts. She came into contact with Kelvin Wynne, who introduced himself as the UK-based geologist when she met him through Facebook in March 2015.
When he proposed to marry her, she invited him to India to discuss the issue with her father. He informed her that he sent a gift parcel containing a cash of 1.4 Lakh GB Pounds, along with his documents and a laptop for his use when he planned to come to India after two months.
Later, one Chris Kennedy, posing as a Manager from Skybird Express Courier Service, Mumbai, confirmed the receipt of the parcel, but told the complainant that the same was seized by the Customs officials. Later, one Jyoti Sharma and Kiran Pandurang contacted her as secretary to a Customs official and as assistant to an officer of Remittance department of RBI respectively and made her to transfer Rs 18.11 lakh to various bank accounts towards charges for the delivery of parcel/gift.
When the accused started demanding more money, she got suspicious and approached the cyber police. Based on her complaint, a case was registered at Cyber Crime PS, Cyberabad under sections 417, 419, 420, 468, 471 r/w 34 of IPC and 66(C & D) of Information Technology Act.
A team of policemen led by Sub-Inspector D Ashish Reddy visited Maharashtra and apprehended the accused from Mumbai on the basis of inputs from the bank account holders. The arrested accused Bilal Khan collected ATM cards from various persons known to him saying that he needs to get money deposited as part of business.
He got money deposited passing the details of the accounts to the Nigerian national Ani John Ibuchi and others, for which he received his commission of 10%, which he deducted from the amount withdrawn and handed it over to Ibuchi. Efforts are on to nab the other accused involved in the crime.
The case is being investigated by Mohammad Riyazuddin, Inspector of Police, Cyber Crime PS, assisted by Sub-Inspector D Ashish Reddy, under guidance of S Jayaram, ACP, Cyber Crime PS, Cyberabad and under supervision of Dr B. Naveen Kumar, DCP (Crimes), Cyberabad.
