Wednesday, 25 August 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
The Special Task Force (STF) and the cyber crime police of Dehradun have caught an accused of cyber crime for the alleged fraud of Rs 66,39,600 in Dehradun.
According to the police report, a local woman of Mothrowala in Dehradun had filed a complaint against the accused who did a fraud of Rs 66,39,600 in the name of selling a golden retriever dog. The woman had contacted the accused, who is from Cameroon, through a website to buy a dog for her daughter’s birthday but he allegedly cheated the woman of Rs 66,39,600 in the name of advance booking of the dog and some other expenses.
The police informed that the police team was searching the accused at various possible places in Bengaluru for the last 15 days. After the investigation, police came to know that the accused along with his other partners were withdrawing money from various ATMs of Bengaluru. The police collected other pieces of evidence from CCTV footage of various ATM booths used by the accused and then later arrested him in Bangalore. The police informed that the accused is being brought to Dehradun under transit remand.
The police have also frozen two bank accounts with a total of Rs 13 lakh which were being used for the transaction by the accused. According to police, the accused used to make fake websites similar to other already existing websites with the help of his associates and then ask for money in the name of advance payments. The Director General of Police (DGP) of Uttarakhand Ashok Kumar also announced a reward of Rs 20,000 for the team which arrested the accused in the cyber fraud.
