Rachakonda: The complainant in his complaint stated that he is the director of “Chemtrack Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd.” company and his company deals with imports in Supplying of chemical products to Pharma companies. On 25-07-2021 he received a mail from the Product Manager of Gridiron UK based company and said that they need Zydon Liquid Oil in Herbal Products and asked to support their company by purchasing the said Oil in India to supply them. So, he will get huge profits. Accordingly, he accepted the deal, then they informed him that the Zydon liquid oil is available in Tiwari Herbal Traders Mumbai and provided their details. When the complainant contacted the Tiwari Herbal Traders. Then, the accused persons impersonated themselves as Tiwari Herbal Traders and responded to the complainant for supplying Zydon Liquid Oil. The accused placed a fake requirement for supplying the Oil. On their demand, the complainant contacted Tiwari Herbal Traders and placed an order for a requirement of 50 liters of Zydon Liquid Oil in order to supply the said Oil to Gridiron UK company and transferred a total amount of Rs.77 lakhs to different bank accounts provided by them as per the fake invoice of accused on the name of Tiwari Herbal Traders Mumbai.
Based on his complaint, registered a case at Cyber Crime Police Station, Rachakonda, and took up the investigation. During the investigation, it is revealed that the accused Ozoeze Charles Okelue(42) of Nigeria who came to India on a student Visa met one person Ifanye (Absconding) who told him that they cheat the public in the name of supplying Herbal Oil products and other products online thus cheating public to earn money easily. The accused agreed to it and they both decided to commit the Herbal oil products business frauds. As per their plan, they procured the SIM cards and bank accounts of different banks from 3rd parties in the name of fake persons. They also got registered “fake companies in fictitious names with the help of 3rd parties for the supplying of Herbal products. Later they contacted the victims through social media by sending emails and messages that lured them and making the victims transfer huge amounts into the accounts procured fraudulently. After transferring of the amounts is done by the victims, they stop responding to the victim’s phone calls and messages and thus cheat the Victims. In the same way, the accused cheated the victim on the name of supplying “Zydon Oil”, which made the complainant transfer 77 Lakhs.
During the course of the Investigation the IO collected all the technical evidence and after analyzing the data on credible information, arrested the accused on 01.11.2021 at Pune Maharashtra, produced him before the Hon’ble Court for sending him to judicial custody.
The Police seized the Original Passport, Three Mobile Phones, One Laptop, A Cheque book, Two Debit Cards, and One gold chain about weight 10 grams.
Under the direct supervision and leadership of Mr. Mahesh M Bhagwat, IPS, Commissioner of Police, and Mr. Sudheer Babu, IPS, Addl. Commissioner of Police with the guidance of Mr. P. Yadagiri, DCP Crimes, and Mr. S. Harinath, Asst. Commissioner of Police the case investigated by Inspector Mr. P. Laxmikanth Reddy Inspector of Cyber Crimes and apprehended the accused.
Our Citizen Reporter
B. Bharath Reddy
Telangana