Summary:
Ghaziabad, Mar 30 (PTI) A Nigerian national was arrested on Wednesday from here by the cyber crime cell for allegedly duping Indian women after befriending them on matrimonial websites, police said.
The accused has been identified as Mamadukolu Udekwe Cyprian, who claimed to be an IT engineer based in Chicago, they said.
Cyprian was duping women with help of his female accomplice Iba Peedian Ghun Nongesai J, a resident of Meghalaya, police said.
The action was initiated on a complaint of a woman engineer of Nehru Nagar Colony.
She had lodged the complaint at the Sihani Gate police station, Cyber Crime Cell in-charge, CO Indirapuram, Abhay Kumar Mishra said.
He added that the accused had duped her of around Rs 35 lakh on the pretext of paying fine to the customs department at the airport as her precious goods, which he had bought for her, had been seized.