Lucknow,

12 Aug (HS): The Special Task Force team of Uttar Pradesh has arrested a

criminal of a Nigerian gang involved in international cyber fraud from Delhi. Additional

Superintendent of Police (STF) Vishal Vikram Singh said the arrested accused is

named Wogu Obed Osinachi, a resident of Nigeria. He came to India in 2022 on a

business visa. After his jail term, he was hiding and living illegally in

Delhi. Some of his friends living in Delhi told that we create fake profile IDs

of girls on Facebook and Instagram. Then we befriend Indian boys and girls.

Then under the pretext of giving expensive gifts, we tell them that the gifts

sent by them have been seized at the airport. In the name of getting them

released, we cheat them by making them pay the fine. By creating a fake

Facebook account in the name of a girl from England, he had earlier duped a boy

from Daliganj, Lucknow of Rs 68 lakh in the name of custom duty, income tax,

GST. The accused admitted that apart from him, many of his friends cheat people

by posing as foreign nationals on Facebook. They also used to operate a rental

account to receive the cheated money.

The

ASP stated that preliminary investigations revealed that he, along with his

gang, had committed fraud in various states across India. Police have handed

over the accused to the Madeyganj police for further action and have begun

searching for other individuals involved in the gang.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi