Pramesh S Jain
The CCB sleuths on Tuesday arrested a 52-year-old man who was posing as RSS functionary and duped many people promising them MP seats,government jobs and president post in government boards.
The CCB sleuths after taking a search warrant from the court conducted search operation at his house in Nagarbhavi and during raid the sleuths have seized 26 lakhs rupees cash and cheques worth Rs.91 Crore and fake letter heads of RSS and BJP,with seal and property documents from his possession.
The accused has been identified as Yuvaraj alias Swamy,52,a resident of Nagarbhavi.
Based on a complaint by a city based businessman who was cheated to the tune of crore by this fraudster who promised him to make a KSRTC chairman.The CCB officials raided his house and arrested him.
Probe revealed that he had duped many people with fake identity.
He claimed that he is very close to central ministers of BJP government and promised that he could do any kind of government work in the government department.
During the interrogation the police found that he used to book a room in a five star hotel,and impress people that he has links with high command.He was taking cash and bank cheques from several people, a police officer part of the probe,said.
Sandeep Patil,Joint commissioner of police, Crime,told media persons,Yuvaraj falsely claimed to know some important persons and promised to get government jobs and government work done.He had cheated the complainant of Rs 1 Crore promising some high ranking post in transport department.
Based on the complaint,CCB took search warrant of accused Yuvaraj house and raided his house today morning.
A team headed by DCP,Crime,KP Ravikumar and team conducted a search at his house during search Rs 26 lakhs cash and cheques addressed to accused worth 91 Crore seized.He wil be taken into custody and further investigation will be done he added.
