Facebook friend, others con Bathinda resident of Rs 60 lakh

Amritsar | Friday | 22nd June, 2018

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BATHINDA: A Bathinda resident was duped of Rs 60 lakh by a UK-based woman he had befriended on Facebook. He then approached Bathinda police.When contacted, Bathinda SSP Naveen Singla said Vivek Kumar had lodged a complaint about some persons cheating him. The woman and her associates had promised him huge amounts of money for supplying a chemical used in making cancer medicines. In December 2017, he met one Viviana of the UK through Facebook. Kumar said that he then called up the drug department in Nepal, from where he got to know that there was no such licence issued by it..