A 38-year-old man with formal education till class 3 has been arrested by the Cybercrime Police of Uttar Pradesh for over Rs. A businessman was duped of Rs 1.68 crore on the pretext of business with a Canadian firm, officials said on Thursday.
The fraudster used Facebook to network with gullible people involved in pharmaceutical production and posed as a middleman, luring them with handsome monetary returns.
According to the police, the accused was arrested from Ballia district in February 2021 by a team of Cyber Crime Police Station, Noida, probing the case registered on the complaint of a businessman living in Omaxe NRI City, Greater Noida.
“Accused Durga Prasad Mishra alias Rajit Mishra along with his associates posed as a middleman for a Canada based pharmaceutical company. Mishra told the complainant that this Canadian firm required ‘Karwin Nuts’, which is an expensive product used for manufacturing certain medicines. If he can buy the product, they will sell it to the Canadian company at a good margin,” said Inspector Rita Yadav, in-charge of the cybercrime police station here.
“However, in reality there was no such Canadian company. The whole story of need of the product was to lure the complainant, who fell for the fabricated story and lost Rs. 1.68 crore,” Yadav said.
He said that an FIR was registered under IPC sections 420 (cheating), 467, 468, 471 (all relating to forgery of documents) and provisions of the Information Technology Act and after investigation the police arrested Mishra who was living in Ballia. was hiding.
During preliminary interrogation, Mishra told the police that he was a resident of Ballia and educated till class 3, but had been indulging in online frauds, for which he used social media platforms like Facebook.
“The accused stated that he started a company named DP Enterprises in Ankleshwar, Gujarat in 2018 with two more partners Sachin alias Lallan Pandey and Santosh Tiwari. For this company, he had opened a current bank account in which the fraudulently earned money was transferred.
According to the police, transactions worth Rs 1.5 lakh have taken place so far. Rs 30 lakh has been received in this account from different sources.
Cyber officer SP Singh said that further investigation is on in the matter and search is on to arrest other associates of accused Mishra.
The accused was produced before a court here on Thursday from where he was remanded to judicial custody, police said.
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