GANG OF NIGERIAN NATIONALS CHEATING PEOPLE BY SENDING FAKE LOTTERY SMSs AND E MAILs BUSTED

Adeleke disclosed that his visa had expired on 01.02.2014 but he still used to stay in India illegally. Due to shortage of money and to earn quick and easy money, he came in contact with some Nigerian friends.  He alongwith his Nigerian friends namely Ugochukwu Usifo @ Monika @ Brown Bruno, an IT expert, Ichaba Lucky Igele & his Indian wife Bandana Chettri @ Niki @ Anjali Gupta started business of cheating on the pretext of Lottery, fake dollars, etc.  They targeted many persons all over the India including one Sardar Kamaljeet Singh of Punjab and cheated more than one crore and fifty lakhs. He usually took 35% of the cheated amount.
Accused Ugochukwu Usifo @ Monika @ Brown Bruno, disclosed that his visa was expired in Jun 2008 but, he still used to stay in India illegally. He alongwith his Nigerian friend Suleiman Lawal @ Benjamin,  Ichaba Lucky Igele & his wife Bandana Chettri @ Niki @ Anjali Gupta started cheating with the persons all over the India on the pretext of Lottery, Fake Dollars, etc.  He himself talked to clients on the mobile phone in the voice of a lady (Monika) with the help of software installed in his mobile phone. He usually took 25% of cheated amount. Being IT expert, he took data of clients and sent bulk massage and email to allure them in the pretext of lottery amount from Coca-Cola, Sumsung, Internation Monitory Fund, UN, etc. He also managed the forged account holder to transfer the money from client and gave them 25% share of cheated amount.

Accused Bandana Chettri @ Niki @ Anjali Gupta and his husband Ichaba Lucky Igele disclosed that they got involved in the racket in year 2015 and they cheated several persons all over the India on the pretext of Lottery, Fake Dollars etc. She usually talks to the target and translates the entire thing in Hindi and forces the target to deposit the amount in different accounts which were already sent by them. They usually took 30% of the cheated amount. They also managed the forged account holder to transfer the money from client and gave them 10% share of the cheated amount.

MODUS OPERANDI

Accused made SMSs to innocent people after collected the data and lured them in the name of lottery from COCA COLA, SAMSUNG, TOYOTA, FORD, CHEVROLET, ETC. Then they asked their details i.e name, address, phone number and e-mail addresses, etc. They sent them fake documents related to lottery i.e Directorate of Income Tax, Monitory Fund, RBI, UN, etc on the pretext that complainant has won 1 million US Dollar.  They lure them and asked to deposit the money in their managed accounts in the name of Income Tax, Service Charge, Conversion charge, etc.

PROFILE:-
1. Suleiman Lawal @ Benjamin, is a resident Lagos, Nigeria and presently residing at Panchsheel Vihar, Khirki Extension, Malviya Nagar, Delhi with his second wife. He has studied upto 9th class.  Due to poor financial conditions, he came to India in Dec 2012 on Business Visa. Initially, he got involved in export business of clothes and thereafter, to earn quick and easy money, he came in contact with some Nigerian friends and started a gang to cheat the people all over India on the pretext of Lottery, Fake Dollars, etc.
2. Ugochukwu Usifo @ Monika @ Brown Bruno, resident of Lagos, Nigeria and presently residing at HNo. Hauz Rani, Khirki Extension, Malviya Nagar, Delhi (Aged-32 yrs) is the permanent resident of NIGERIA. He is a graduate in Information Technology from Lagos University, Nigeria and is unmarried.  Due to poor financial conditions, he came to India in 2008 on Business Visa. Initially, he got involved in export business of clothes. His visa had expired in Jun 2008 but he still used to stay in India illegally. Thereafter, to earn quick and easy money, he came in contact with some Nigerian friends and started a gang to cheat the people all over India on the pretext of Lottery, Fake Dollar etc.  

3. Bandana Chettri @ Niki @ Anjali Gupta @ Kavita, w/o Ichaba Lucky Igele is a resident of Distt Darjeeling, West Bengal and presently residing with his husband Nilothi Extension, Delhi-41.  She completed her B.Ed from Darjeeling. She came to Delhi after some dispute with her first husband and started job in South Delhi in baby sitting in 2011. She came in contact with Ichaba Lucky Igele through facebook and got married with him in 2013. After getting influenced by his Nigerian husband to earn quick and easy money, she came in contact with other friends and started a gang to cheat the people all over India on the pretext of Lottery, Fake Dollars, etc.
4 Ichaba Lucky Igele @ Lucianao (Age-41) is a permanent resident of Lagos State, Nigeria and presently residing at Shiva Vihar, Nilothi Extension, Delhi-41 with his Indian wife. He got his Ordinary National Degree from Nigeria and working in Redeem Christiana Church, Pankha Road as Usher. To earn quick and easy money, he alongwith his wife came in contact with some friends and started a gang to cheat the people all over India on the pretext of Lottery, Fake Dollars, etc.  

Recovery:-
  1. Three Nigerian Passports with Visa
  2. 12 Mobile phones
  3. One Million Fake US Dollar Currency in 20 Packets including 2 packets of fake US Dollars.
  4. Three Laptops
  5. Fake ID Cards
  6. Debit Card
  7. 7 Passbooks including one withdrawal booklet and one cheque book
  8. Rs. 2 lakh cheated amount.
  • NAMES OF RENOWNED COMPANIES LIKE COCA COLA, SAMSUNG, TOYOTA, FORD, CHEVROLET, ETC USED TO LURE THE PEOPLE
  • FOUR NIGERIAN NATIONALS INCLUDING ONE INDIAN LADY COUNTERPART ARRESTED WHO DUPED/CHEATED THE PEOPLES IN THE NAME OF COCA-COLA LOTTERY OF ONE MILLION US DOLLAR.
     RECOVERED ONE MILLION FAKE DOLLAR PACKETS FROM THEIR POSSESSION WITH RS. TWO LAKH CHEATED AMOUNT AND SEVERAL MOBILE PHONES, LAPTOPS, FAKE DOCUMENTS.
    NIGERIAN CAME TO INDIA ON STUDY, BUISNESS & MEDICAL VISA.
     CHEATED SEVERAL PERSONS ALL OVER INDIA INCLUDING ONE FARMER OF DISTT SBS NAGAR, PUNJAB TO THE TUNE OF MORE THAN RS. 1 CRORE 50 LAKHS.
INTRODUCTION
The Special Team of Crime Branch has apprehended three notorious Nigerian cheats (1) Suleiman Lawal (62 age) @ Benjamin, (2) Ugochukwu Usifo @ Brown Bruno (32 age), (3) Ichaba Lucky Igele (Age-41 yrs), and (4) one Indian lady counterpart namely  Bandana Chettri @ Niki @ Anjali Gupta (Age-43 Yrs), W/o Ichaba Lucky Igele were arrested in FIR No. 96/17, dated 23/06/17 u/s 419/420/ 468/471/120B/34 IPC, r/w 66 IT Act r/w 14 Foreigner Act; PS Crime Branch, Delhi.
INCIDENT
On 22/06/2017, a complaint was received from Sardar Kamaljeet Singh of Distt-SBS, Punjab in Special Team, Crime Branch, Prashant Vihar, Rohini, that he was cheated around 1,50,00,000/- (Rupees One crore and fifty lakhs only) by a gang of Nigerian cheats including Indian lady who are still demanding  money Rs. 45,00,000/- on the pretext of bribe required to give the police to clear the chemical which was required to clear the poisoning stamp on dollars.

A team of officers of Crime Branch, under the close and personal supervision of Dr. G Ram Gopal Naik, DCP Crime (SER & ST) & Smt Shweta Chauhan, ACP/ST, a team of Insp. Satish Kumar No. D-3737 comprising of SI Ajit Singh No. D-4764, ASI Shailender Singh No. 2548/N, ASI Parma Ram No. 334/CR, ASI Rajesh Kumar No. 729/CR, ASI Virender Dahiya No. 116/CR, HC Praveen No. 119/CR, HC Sohan Lal No. 1339/CR, HC Ravi Khari No 714/CR, HC Devdutt No. 352/CR, HC Ajay No 140/CR, HC Dinesh No. 956/CR, Ct Azad Singh No 705/CR & Ct Naveen No 1506/CR with complainant Kamaljeet Singh was constituted and preliminary enquiry conducted and a case vide FIR No. 96/17, u/s 420/120B/34 IPC was registered on 23 Jun 2017 and at the instance of the complainant a trap was laid down near Bus Stand Hauz Rani, Khirkhi Extension, Malviya Nagar, Delhi. The accused Suleiman Lawal @ Benjamin, s/o Adeleke, Ugochukwu Usifo @ Monika @ Brown Bruno, s/o Usif Chukwu were arrested and four mobile phones, fake dollars, laptop and passports were recovered from their possession. Accordingly, the accused was produced in the Court of Sh. Vishal Gogne, CMM, Rohini Court and Police Custody remand for 5 days to trace out the other associates has been obtained. Further, on the disclosure and at the instance of the accused person, another Nigerian namely Ichaba Lucky Igele, s/o Ichaba and his wife namely Bandana Chettri @ Niki @ Anjali Gupta were arrested and Rs. Two lakhs cheated amount, passbooks, debit card and mobile phones used in the crime were recovered from their possession. Nigerian High Commission, New Delhi has also been informed accordingly.

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