Police smash Nigerian cyber fraud gang in India
Indian police on duty
Published By: Ayorinde Oluokun
Three Nigerians identified as Lezhu John, Gibril Mohammed, and Egboola Ekena has been arrested in India for buying hundreds of accounts which they used to transfer and siphon money in the Asian country.
The three Nigerians were arrested last Friday, according to a report by Times of India.
Their arrest followed a report by a young woman to the Cybercrime police station that she was duped of over Rs 2.62 lakh by the gang.
Police said investigation of the claim by the woman led to the arrest of the Nigerian cyber fraud gang.
According to the police, investigations further revealed that the gang members bought hundreds of bank accounts in various states which they used to transfer and siphon the money they duped from gullible victims.
“We found that the gang had details of over 500 bank accounts. They said that they purchased the accounts from some other gang by paying money. These accounts were opened with either genuine or bogus documents,” said a cybercrime official.
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The gang, according to the police, transferred huge sums of money from one account to another.
Investigators are now trying to track down the gangs that sold the bank account details to the Nigerian gang.
Lezhu John, Gibril Mohammed, and Egboola Ekena were tracked down on the basis of bank account transactions and intelligence inputs and arrested in Delhi.
“Their visa expired, but still they chose to stay in India. All three used to commit cyber frauds to earn quick money,” said M M Rajput, ACP (cybercrime).
Police said it also found hundreds of photographs of men and women on the mobile phones of the accused.
They gang members used the photos to open bogus accounts on social media for luring their victims, Indian police said.
