3 cheat 2 of ₹4.65 crore, booked
MUMBAI: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai police has booked three businessman of a family for duping two people to the tune of ₹4.65 crore.
The accused, Akshay Zaveri, his wife, Filomina, and Rajiv Zaveri, ran a business of buying and selling broadcasting rights of old Hindi films. They had taken money from the two complainants, one of them being Pallavi Prashant Shinde – a resident of Swan Lake Tower in Andheri (West) – on the pretext of investing it in their business. They had allegedly promised them a 5% interest every month. However, the accused neither returned the money, nor the profit turnover.
A case under sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 120-B (hatching criminal conspiracy) under the Indian Penal Code has been registered against the accused at Amboli police station in Juneend and was recently transferred to EOW. “In 2015, the accused told her that if she invested in their business, they would give her 5% interest every month on the principal and would return the money. Shinde invested ₹1.03 crore. The accused returned Shinde’s money in time and with interest, and gained her trust,” said a source.
They approached Shinde again in 2017 and offered her a monthly interest of 5% if she invested in one Satyen Tondon’s projects in America for six months. Shinde invested ₹95 lakh. However, the accused failed to return the money, an EOW official said.
Later, Shinde discovered that another Ankush Arun Chopra was also allegedly duped of ₹3.7 crore in the same way by the accused. EOW officials are checking the veracity of the allegations. MUMBAI: Five cyber-fraudsters were arrested for allegedly posing as employees of a recognised financial services company and duping a Kandivli businessman of ₹2.92 lakh.
According to the Charkop police, the complainant’s brother received a call from the fraudsters on April 2 who posed as executives of one of the largest Indian financial services company. The accused said they could provide a loan if he agreed to keep 4% of the principal as fixed deposit in their company.
Hearing this, the complainant called up the accused who asked him to furnish his financial details. He applied for a ₹50 lakh loan, which was negotiated to ₹47 lakh. The accused asked him to send them 4% of the principal, which is ₹1.92 lakh. They also asked for ₹1 lakh. He realised he had been duped after he did not get the loan amount. Senior inspector Pramod Dhaware said, “The accused were previously arrested by the Matunga police. They were arrested on Friday.”