NOIDA: Nine persons were arrested on Friday for cheating scores of people on the pretext of facilitating loans in Noida. The accused had made several agents in different cities and trapped people. They used to ignore the loan seekers’ calls and messages once the money was deposited in their accounts.The accused were identified as Javed, Ravindra, Sohanveer, Jolly, Mohammad, Akash from Meerut, and Vipin Kumar and Farman from Muzaffarnagar and Anit Kumar from Baghpat Arun Kumar Singh, SP (city), said the gang members had moved to Sector 63, Noida four months ago from Meerut, after the local police chased them. They had launched a call centre – Agro Business Solution Pvt Ltd.Javed, the mastermind, had roped in some other persons from his native place and hired a rented accommodation in Noida. He also joined some agents in different cities and cheated them of several lakhs on pretext of giving huge returns.Arjun Saini, a resident of Udaipur in Rajasthan , filed a complaint against the company management in Phase III police station. He said that he worked as an agent for the company. He had convinced several loan seekers in his area and filled the forms. However, the company asked them to deposit processing fee depending on their loan amounts.“Several loan applicants had submitted the forms and the processing fee amounting to Rs 3.56 lakh. However, the company started ignoring their calls. They also refused to facilitate loans,” he said. Since the loan seekers were behind Saini, and he filed a police complaint suspecting a foul play.The police have freezed two bank accounts and also seized 14 mobile phones, one laptop, one printer, loan forms, and some fake documents from their possession.

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