In what can be called a huge success, Agra police's cyber cell recovered Rs 10.50 lakh stolen from a retired army officer in New Delhi.?
The fraudsters had cheated the Lt. General with a fake business proposal. They had promised to set up a business of exporting mineral to foreign pharmaceutical companies.?
According to a TOI report, the fraud contacted the former army officer, who lives in Delhi's Greater Kailash, on LinkedIn. The man had identified as Kiyoshi Nizuguchi who was based in Tokyo and associated with a pharma firm.?
"In December 2019, Nizuguchi asked me to represent his company and buy some mineral from Sanu mining group based in West Bengal's Siliguri. The mining group turned out to be fake. Later, the accused told me to contact a woman called Arti Mukherjee of the fake mining company," the report said quoting the officer's FIR.?
After a couple of contact and email exchanges, the fraud convinced the ex-army officer to buy a consignment of minerals worth Rs 10.50 lakh from the woman. Nizuguchi also told the general that his firm's employees would come to collect the mineral consignment.?
The fraud also assured 7 per cent commission to the ex-officer on the purchase of the mineral. When no one arrived to pick the consignment, the ex-officer contacted Delhi Police.?
"The officer had under-reported the amount of money he was cheated. During the course of the investigation, we traced a part of money amounting to Rs 10.50 lakh to a bank account which was put on freeze," the report quoted Shailesh Kumar, Agra IG range cyber cell in-charge as saying.?
Senior police officers in Agra said the money would be handed over to the ex-army officer once the court grants permission.