Luxury car racket: Cops to probe if arrested Nigerians have links with ‘serial’ scamster

On June 20, the Property Cell of the Crime Branch had arrested David Amuche, Frank Chinedu, Philip Ikani and Emeka Uzoechi from Goregaon.

The quartet is alleged to be part of a gang which created a website advertising luxury cars like Audi for throwaway rates.
The accused would allegedly lure people into paying a token amount, which would run into several lakhs of rupees and then stop responding to their queries.

“While interrogating the accused, we have found out they stay in Goregaon, where Tazdar was also staying. When Tazdar was arrested back in October last year, we had obtained leads pointing to the involvement of at least one Nigerian national who would handle the hacking and phishing aspect of his racket. We are trying to find out whether these Nigerians are connected to Tazdar’s racket, or whether they have information about those Nigerians who helped Tazdar,” said a Crime Branch officer.

The officer added that pinpointing their connection was proving to be a challenge as the Nigerian accused were in the habit of changing their cell phones frequently.The Crime Branch went on to arrest Muzammil Tazdar on October 15 this year.The police also to arrested eight others, including Thadani’s accountant Omprakash Pathak.

gautam.mengle@expressindia.com