Nigerian held in Mumbai for duping Delhi businessman

DCP (Southwest) Suman Goel said, “The accused lured Sherpa into paying him Rs 29 lakh on the false pretext of purchasing a chemical which is used for removing ink from dollar currency notes.”

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Police said the accused showed the complainant a bundle of stained notes and demonstrated cleaning them with a liquid. Sherpa fell for the ruse and paid Rs 29 lakh. When the accused demanded Rs 12 lakh more, the complainant became suspicious and decided to approach police.

A special team was formed to track the accused. Police then received secret information that he was in Mumbai. A team was immediately dispatched and he was caught.

Police found that the accused earlier been arrested by the Anti Narcotics Cell of the Mumbai police as well. Police also recovered a forged identity card bearing the seal of the of UN, a forged Gambian passport, a forged sanctioned letter from the UN, five mobiles phones, a Tata Docomo landline phone, a laptop, and bank account cards worth Rs 2 lakh, from the accused.