House help in Dubai, auto-rickshaw driver and chef pose as CBI officers to cheat Bengaluru man of Rs 30 lakh in courier scam

The Cybercrime, Economic Offences and Narcotics (CEN) constabulary said the arrested men had been identified arsenic Mukarram, 25, the alleged kingpin; Mansoor, 28, and Ibrahim, 46 — each local. They said Ibrahim helped the accused to determination Rs 10.25 lakh to Dubai from Bengaluru via the Hawala route. The constabulary said Mukarram a assemblage dropout, moved to Dubai successful 2021 to enactment arsenic a location help. Mansoor, a puerility person of Mukarram, works arsenic an auto-rickshaw operator and Ibrahim is simply a cook and owns a cloth business.

A constabulary serviceman said Mukarram hired Ibrahim, Mansoor, and galore others crossed the state and immoderate of them besides worked successful Cambodia. Mukarram was besides successful interaction with immoderate Chinese nationals and was introduced to the scam done them, said the officer.

The officers said the antheral approached the South CEN constabulary connected July 2 alleging helium was conned by immoderate radical who posed arsenic CBI officers and extorted Rs 30 lakh from him. According to the complaint, the accused threatened him saying a parcel with contraband had been sent utilizing his credentials. They told the unfortunate the parcel contained amerciable items including 140 gram of MDMA, 3 recognition cards, 5 passports, and 4 kg of clothes.

The accused threatened the antheral with apprehension for 10 days, asked him to determination to a hotel, and to stay disposable arsenic they wanted to interrogate him. The accused interrogated the unfortunate connected Skype respective times. After the antheral realised helium had been cheated, helium filed a constabulary complaint.

A constabulary serviceman said the large pb came aft they recovered that the unfortunate transferred wealth to lone 2 slope accounts which was wired to Mansoor. On September 10, the constabulary arrested Mansoor and Ibrahim from a autobus basal successful Govindapura’s Kavalbyrasandra. During interrogation, Mansoor confessed to the constabulary saying helium had transferred Rs 4 lakh to different idiosyncratic and had Rs 11 lakh successful his slope relationship which was frozen pursuing the victim’s complaint.

After helium reached India from Dubai connected September 12, the constabulary arrested Mukarram.