Black dollar’ scam: Vadodara court convicts 5 from Nigeria for duping businessman
The gang then tried to extract more money to "wash up" the "black dollar" — piles of fake currency that the accused convinced the victim were real bank notes but stained in a heist and needed to be cleaned — to pay the victim the insurance money.
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The five nigerian were nabbed from Delhi and Bengaluru. (Representational Image) A local court in Vadodara has convicted and sentenced a gang of five cyber criminals from Nigeria to five years imprisonment and imposed a penalty of Rs 21.5 lakh for duping a city-based businessman by offering him CPU scrap at a cheap price and then conning him in a black dollar scam.
The Vadodara Cyber Police station, in a release, stated Saturday that the court of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of Vadodara on October 17, convicted the five accused, identified as Benjamin Ndri (30), Kaptu Ematurin Mariye (43), Kiti Jaques Devaluis (38), Martin Cooper Ndimou (38), and Halji Mahamane Toure (45). While Ndri, Mariye and Devaluis were arrested from New Delhi, Ndimou and Toure are residents of Bengaluru.
The case pertains to a 2021 complaint of the victim, Rajesh Patel who had been duped after responding to an offer made by the accused on email between October 2020 and March 2021 to purchase CPU scrap at a cheap rate. Patel paid the accused 50 per cent of the decided sum but did not receive the material.
When questioned, the accused had asked him to pay more money for “insuring the scrap” that was to be shipped from a different country. When Patel did not receive the material after several days, the gang told him that the scrap had been “lost in transit” and that Patel would receive the “insurance money” from the accused.
The gang then tried to extract more money to “wash up” the “black dollar” — piles of fake currency that the accused convinced the victim were real bank notes but stained in a heist and needed to be cleaned — to pay the victim the insurance money. It is then that Patel had realised that he had been duped and approached the cyber crime cell in Vadodara. The five were nabbed from Delhi and Bengaluru.
The accused have been convicted under Indian Penal Code sections (406), cheating (420), forgery (465), committing forgery for the purpose of cheating (468), fraudulently or dishonestly using a forged document as genuine (471), and crime committed in presence of abettor (114).
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