Rajnandgaon: Chhattisgarh Police has arrested a Nigerian accused who cheated women by creating a fake profile on Shaadi.com from Delhi. The accused, 40-year-old Johnson Samuel, is a native of N-18 Ejigbo, Nigeria. He lived in G-81 of Sant Nagar Extension Shahpura of Tilak Nagar police station area of New Delhi. While staying there, he was luring women into his trap and cheating them online. One such case of cheating happened with a girl from Dongargaon in Rajnandgaon district, in which Johnson cheated her of Rs 15 lakh 72 thousand. On the complaint of the girl, Dongargaon police and cyber team traced the location and reached Delhi.
There the accused was surrounded and arrested from Tilak Nagar police station area. ASP Rahul Dev Sharma said that even after the validity of visa and passport had expired, the accused was living illegally in Delhi.
The accused was living in a rented house
Nigerian accused Johnson was living in a rented house in Tilak Nagar Chaukhandi Sant Nagar Extension, Delhi. After tracing the location, Dongargaon police and cyber team reached Delhi and surrounded and arrested the accused in Tilak Nagar area itself.
During interrogation, the accused revealed that he had committed the fraud with the help of a woman. The accused was committing fraud along with his Indian female partner. The female accomplice used to provide bank account and fake SIM to the accused. A laptop, four mobile phones and passport have been seized from him.