Times of India (May 14, 20120
NEW DELHI: Four persons, including two Nigerians, have been arrested
for allegedly duping an NRI of Rs 43.5 lakh two years ago by selling
fake licorice seeds, a perennial herb used as flavouring and sweetener
in medicines, candies and tobacco products, police said on Saturday.
38-year-old Narender Sharma alias Rajiv Anand alias Roshan Verma and
Gurmeet Kohli alias Rinki, 46, were arrested on Wednesday after
receiving complaint from an NRI along with a Bangalore-based
businessman, Raghavendra Bhat, about receiving mail about "business
opportunity in India" from the accused, they said.
Two mobile phones, packet of dummy money, a sample packet of licorice
seed and one laptop were recovered from them. Both of them were
identified by the complainant as the same persons, who had taken Rs
43.5 lakh from him in 2010, a senior police official said.
Two of their associates, identified as Moses Ojeaga alias Abbas, 43,
and Idowu Osho alias Abdul, both Nigerian nationals, currently residing
at Hauz Rani were arrested when they came to deliver packets of
licorice seeds to a decoy customer in Defence colony.
With the arrest of the four the SIT team of Crime Branch of Delhi
Police has busted an international racket involved in fraud.
"The NRI had alleged that he received a spam mail in December 2010 from
Canada about "Business Opportunity in India". He replied to it in the
positive. Thereafter, he exchanged many mails with Terry John (name
mentioned in the mail) and he asked him to supply "licorice seed" from
India to their Canada-based company 'Theravaccine', said Sanjay Kumar
Jain, DCP Crime and Railways.
Lured by the prospect of heavy profit, as the seeds are very rare and
costly, he agreed to supply 100 packets of licorice seeds costing
nearly Rs 90 lakh to Terry John's company.
On this, he contacted Verma on his mobile phone and the accused agreed
to supply 100 packets of licorice seed for Rs 43.5 lakh. After settling
the deal, Verma asked him to come to Delhi with cash Rs 43.5 lakh to
take the delivery of 100 packets of licorice seed.
In December 2010, the complainant reached Delhi and contacted Verma,
who called him near a cafe in Safdarjang Development Area Market. Two
persons met him there and one of them introduced himself as Roshan
Verma who gave him one packet as sample of licorice seeds.
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