A 38-year-old Nigerian woman, identified as Nawakoo Oluchi Chivoma has been arrested in India for allegedly duping a 21-year-old man from south Mumbai.
Oluchi allegedly posed as an executive of an international pharmaceutical firm.
According to Indian Express newspaper, Oluchi has been linked to over eight cases of fraud.
Police revealed that the Nigerian woman would allegedly offer victims business deals for the procurement of herbal products and later dupe them.
The victim, Prakash Devasi, said in his complaint that Chivoma had messaged his father on November 6, 2019. She went by the name Mark Nana, and claimed an international company was looking for an exporter of a herbal product in India.
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A police officer said: “The complainant was asked to buy the raw material from particular companies in Assam and Rajasthan. These companies were conduits of the accused and were part of the fraud,”
“Devasi bought two litres of the product from a company at Rs 5 lakh. Later, an executive visited their office and said the quality tests were positive, offering to buy the product at double the previous rate. However, he said the company would need double the amount of the herbal product,”
“As the number was switched off, we located her with the help of a courier service that had delivered the herbal products at the complainant’s address,”
Chivoma was apprehended in Navi Mumbai while meeting with a representative of the courier company to receive the herbal products.
She was arrested on March 27 and produced in court the next day, following which she was remanded to police custody till March 3.