Mumbai: Crime Branch Unit 8, of the Mumbai Police with the help of technical analysis and sources, arrested 3 accused from the Airport area of Andheri. From whom keys of different 5-star hotels have been recovered. The name of the arrested accused is Majid Abdul Malik Khan alias Mannu (44), who is a resident of Uttar Pradesh. The name of the second accused is Mayank Pradeep Sharma alias Laddu (22), who is a resident of Delhi. The third accused is Akash Dwarkaprasad Aggarwal alias Kabir alias Kabbu (19), a resident of Thane.
Investigation revealed that these three accused were very clever and used to commit fraud in a well-planned manner. Earlier these vicious accused used to search for such businessmen. They have US dollars and need US dollars to go abroad claiming they are involved in the film business. After talking about this, he used to call the complainant to a 5-star hotel and talk to him. After gaining the complainant's trust, the accused used to call the complainant with 25 thousand US dollars, and on the pretext of talking, they ran away with the US dollars.
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Mumbai Crime Branch Busted Dollar Fraud Gang, 3 Held
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Investigation revealed that these accused had committed the crime of fraud by telling people across the country that they needed US dollars to go abroad. A case is registered against the accused at the airport police station. The police have appealed to the public to inform those who were cheated in the name of the US dollar exchange. He should register a case at the nearest police station, which will be investigated by the police. Not only this, the Crime Branch Unit is investigating from the three accused how many fraud incidents have been committed across the country and who all are involved in its thug gang.
There is a gang linked to committing fraud in the name of exchanging lakhs of rupees. Also, they used to run away with the complainant's US dollars. A similar case was registered at Vakola police station on February 28. The accused had absconded with 25 thousand US dollars (21 lakh 25 thousand) of the complainant. Crime Branch Unit 8 was involved in the investigation.
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