Pramesh S Jain
T
he organised Crime Wing officials of Central Crime Branch have arrested a gang of five for cheating a city based businessman and made away with Rs.37.5 lakh promising loan worth crores .
The accused had approached the businessman who had incurred huge loss in business and looking for business loan.
The accused lured him into a business deal stating that they had sold an antique vessel in international market for a huge sum of Rs.15 lakh crore and the amount is stuck in the RBI for some formalities.
They lured the businessman that they needed money to pay the tax to get the amount released and assured that he would be given few crores for the help to develop his business .
Excited by the offer,the businessman agreed and arranged Rs.37.5 lakh which he paid to the accused in a meeting arranged in Delhi.
The accused had even shared few fake RBI documents claiming that the huge amount of money is pending and would be released after the payment of taxes .
After getting the money,the accused escaped which prompted the businessman to approach the police.
The case was taken over by CCB in November last year and track down the accused from Bengaluru,Tamilnadu and Hubballi where the accused were hiding.
The police also recovered two cars,five mobile phones , fake RBI files and cash Rupees one lakh from them.
