The state cyber cell has nabbed a Nigerian national couple from New Delhi who cheated a state capital based woman to the tune of Rs 10 lakh in the name of seizure of foreign currency in her name by customer officer.
Massive amount of electronic devices, numerous bank account documents and foreign currency was recovered from the nabbed accused identified as Stefan Chukuwuma and Vivian Aghlore were nabbed from Tilak Nagar New Delhi.
The two nabbed duped a state capital based woman who deposited Rs 10 lakh in three different bank accounts of SBI.
In her complaint victim stated that accused make her friend over facebook and posed as employee working in American and soon the accused sent her a gift box from America which never reached her but was caught by Customs Officers in between and they informed the victim that gift is carrying massive foreign currency and she could be in trouble and demanded Rs 10 lakh which she provided to the accused and later sensed that she has been cheated and lodged a complaint with the cyber cell.
During the investigation police tracked the accused in New Delhi and nabbed the couple.
Police have recovered laptop, mobile phones, fake SIM cards, internet dongle, pen drives, and documents of different bank accounts, debit cards and cheque books. The police have registered a case under section 419, 420, 467, 471 of the IPC and section 66C and 66 D of the IT Act.