Retired bank employee loses Rs 50 lakh in ‘digital arrest fraud’, two arrested

An official said that they have arrested auto driver Ravi Ambore (35) and Vishwapal Jadhav (37) in connection with the case on Tuesday.

“While Ambore had provided his bank account details, Jadhav had procured the account and provided it to main fraudsters who used to transfer money across various accounts to evade law enforcement agencies,” the official said.

The official said that they registered an FIR in the case on October 9 when the 83-year-old approached them with the complaint. As per the complaint, the senior citizen received a video call from a person claiming to be from Nashik police.

The ‘officer’ in the video told the senior citizen that his account had been used for money laundering. He was further told that he would have to transfer all his money to a government bank account to “verify if the money was genuine.”

The caller also told the victim and his wife to stay in front of the camera as they were under “surveillance” and they were not to alert others of the case.

The couple were under surveillance for three days, during which they transferred Rs 50.50 lakh to the account number provided by the accused between September 11 to 24 – the period during which the accused were in touch with them.

It was only after the money was transferred and the accused disconnected the call that they realised that they had been conned and approached the police.

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