New Delhi: Two men were arrested for allegedly duping people by offering high returns on stock market investments. Police have found that the men, along with other gang members, were in contact with Chinese scammers and transferred money to them.A woman from Ashok Vihar filed a police complaint that she was duped of Rs 21 lakh by fraudsters who promised her lucrative returns through share market investments. The scammers showed her a fake application similar to a real brokerage platform. “The victim transferred the entire amount in three separate transactions to bank accounts provided by the fraudsters. They were in contact through social media,” police said.A case under Section 318 (cheating) of BNS was registered. The social media and bank accounts were found linked to multiple foreign countries. There were also discrepancies in the addresses of the bank account holders.DCP (northwest) Bhisham Singh said Pawan (29) and Mankiraat Dhillon (36) were arrested from Punjab’s Mohali.Pawan told police that he was in contact with Chinese nationals and supplied them with bank account details collected from people in his area. Dhillon opened a current account in his wife’s name using a fake address. The duo travelled to Nepal, where they received proceeds of the crime in a bank account with the help of the Chinese. An air ticket, hotel bill, chequebook and passbook of the alleged bank account, along with the SIM card linked to the account and the handset, were recovered.
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