90-Year-Old Falls Prey To Digital Arrest Scam In Gujarat, Loses Rs 1 Crore
NDTV
Five people have been arrested for the racket that was run in collaboration with a gang in China, but the mastermind is yet to be traced. The main accused, Parth Gopani, is suspected to be in Cambodia.
A 90-year-old man in Gujarat's Surat lost his entire life savings of over Rs 1 crore to fraudsters, who posed as CBI officers and placed him under 'digital arrest' for 15 days, claiming that drugs were found in a parcel that was couriered in his name from Mumbai to China.
According to the Surat Crime Branch, five people have been arrested for the racket that was run in collaboration with a gang in China, but the mastermind is yet to be traced. The main accused, Parth Gopani, is suspected to be in Cambodia.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Bhavesh Rozia said the senior citizen, who traded in the stock market, had received a WhatsApp call from one of the scamsters, who identified himself as a CBI officer. The conmen claimed that 400 grams of MD drugs was found in a parcel that was reportedly couriered in the senior citizen's name from Mumbai to China.
