The crime branch of Odisha police has arrested one Prasant Dwivedi from Kolkata on Friday for his involvement in an online cheating case of Rs 74 lakh.<\/p>\n
A team of the crime branch led by inspector Abantimani Nayak the arrested fraudster from Alipore, Kolkata and seized incriminating evidence like ATM card etc. from his possession, police officers said.<\/p>\n
He was arrested based on a complaint filed by a senior citizen Ramballav Rath (63 years) of Bhubaneswar, who was duped of Rs 74 lakhs by fraudsters.<\/p>\n
As per the complaint, Rath, an advocate, deposited the money in several installments.<\/p>\n
The police said Rath had been receiving frequent calls from different mobile numbers since May 2018 identifying themselves as officials of various firms.<\/p>\n
He was enticed to deposit processing amounts etc. to clear up his huge insurance benefits and in that process, he had deposited a sum of more than Rs 74 lakhs in installments to different given fraudulent accounts, they said.<\/p>\n
The fraudsters had managed to siphon out the money sharing several fraud email IDs, fake official letters, etc.<\/p>\n
The crime branch has already arrested one Dharmendra Kumar (36) from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh last month.<\/p>\n
He had created a fake domain IRDAI (Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India) and created a fake email Id viz. ‘IRDAI.org’ with his own credentials and had sold the email id and password to one Prasant of Lucknow, who was arrested from Kolkata on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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