Foreigners arrested in Bengaluru for duping Kolkata man

KOLKATA: A Nigerian and an Ivory Coast national were arrested from Bangalore by Bidhannagar police’s cyber crime department for allegedly duping a Salt Lake resident for over 82 lakh over a span of several weeks.
Police said, the two used to fake their identities and approach middle aged men posing as women on social media and after a few weeks of friendship, they would lure them into a business as a partner and then dupe them.In this case, the duo had approached Salt Lake resident Kushal Das Mahapatra, made friendship and then asked him to invest in a seed business.
“Mahapatra was asked to invest slowly into the business and was told that there was huge demand of indigenous seeds of Indian plants in the international market of which they had proper connection. The complainant had paid Rs 82 lakh in three instalments before realising he was being duped,” said a senior officer of Bidhannagar Commissionerate.
Based on the complaint, cops tracked the IP address of the fraudsters and landed at their Bangalore address and arrested Ivoririenne Donous Arnold Patrick (30) and Nigerian Bake Asoro (30) from different apartments at Hennur Gardens in Bangalore on Wednesday. They were produced before a local court and were being brought to Kolkata in transit remand.