Delhi: 100 duped by fake ED officials

  • | Friday | 15th February, 2019

NEW DELHI: A gang of crooks that used to dupe businessmen by posing as officials of Enforcement Directorate has been busted by Crime Branch. He is a graduate and used to work at a call centre from which he procured the loan details. The kingpin would approach targets and offer to clear large loans in return for commission in lakhs. Dhingra and his associate, Ratnakar Lal, who posed as a chartered accountant, used forged letterheads of the ED to clear loans of huge amounts. The gang members claimed that the transactions would not be scanned by ED officials as they had the clout to get them off the list.

NEW DELHI: A gang of crooks that used to dupe businessmen by posing as officials of Enforcement Directorate has been busted by Crime Branch. The kingpin would approach targets and offer to clear large loans in return for commission in lakhs. The gang members claimed that the transactions would not be scanned by ED officials as they had the clout to get them off the list. They were found having duped more than 100 people in the past few years.Additional commissioner Rajiv Ranjan said that a team led by DCP Rajesh Deo tracked down the kingpin, Satish Dhingra, who claimed to be a financer. Dhingra and his associate, Ratnakar Lal, who posed as a chartered accountant, used forged letterheads of the ED to clear loans of huge amounts. “They used to boast of having a close acquaintance with ED officers and had recently duped a person of Rs 38 lakh on the pretext of collecting processing charges,” Ranjan said.The gang had set up fictitious finance firms named “Success Financial Service” and “CD Financial Service”. They would ask their targets to deposit the money in their personal bank accounts and disappear. Dhingra had also been declared a proclaimed offender by a Faridabad court.Dhingra and Lal would randomly keep changing their locations after committing the crime. “Local Inputs were developed from the localities they had resided earlier and technical surveillance was mounted on them. Dhingra was finally found in Ghaziabad,” said DCP Deo.During interrogation, Dhingra said they would lure targets with attractive interest rates and make them sign fake loan documents. They would charge a percentage of the loan as processing fee and ask the victims to wait for a few days before the money was credited to their account. However, after a few days they would switch off their mobile phones and dispose their SIM cards.Police said Dhingra is from a middle-class family in Palwal. He is a graduate and used to work at a call centre from which he procured the loan details. Lal has a diploma in web designing.

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