Mumbai: A spiritual leader from Uttar Pradesh are among six people who have been arrested for allegedly deceiving a businessman by inviting him to pay Rs 27 crore to pay taxes for remittance to the release of Rs 55,000 crore were arrested for non-payment of the amount of tax.
The defendant has asked employers to pay Rs 27 crore initially after the process to claim a large amount will begin.
However, the businessman, who has filed a complaint, do not fall into their trap and pay only Rs 30,000, Crime Branch officials said.
Crime branch team led by DCP Neelotpal catch six accused of Bhandup on Friday.
They have been identified as Bhaskarrao Yosupogu (44), Arindram dey (38), Vinay Nair aka Rajvindra Mehra (50), Sumeet Nagarale alias Sumeet Punjabi (31), and spiritual leader Anilkumar Ishwarsharan Singh (63) from Uttar Pradesh and his aide Ajay Kumar Nishad (43).
They are in police custody.
Yosupogu met with the complainant in a hotel in Bhandup.
“He claimed that he had sold some of the precious metal to companies in Canada for 15 billion euros.
He said that the Canadian company has sent 6.7 billion euros (Rs 55,000 crore) into his bank account but RBI has been holding the money because of unpaid taxes .
Yosupogu claimed that she did not have Rs 27 crore paid by way of taxes, “said an officer.
Yosupogu ask the complainant to invest Rs 27 crore to get the money cleared from the bank and that in return the investor will be paid 40% of the total money will he get.
At that time, Buisnisessman Yosupogu pay Rs 30,000 to Rs 60 lakh is sought as the number of tokens.
A day later, they met at a restaurant in Bhandup where Yosupogu got some paperwork to start the process to obtain funds from Canada.
He has agreed a formal agreement for the deal.
This is when the complainant approached the police.
“The accusation has requested Rs 60 lakh as the number of tokens that he claims are required to get files moving.
He also claimed that once the file is moved, the employer must submit its KYC documents to the office of the RBI.
It is all false claims,” said Neelotpal.
Police arrested the accused while six are negotiating at the restaurant.
Police have recovered fake documents RBI, DRDO and other key government agencies.
“The brains behind this racket is said to be in Hyderabad,” said the Crime Branch inspector Manish Shridhankar.
Punjabi, police said, claiming he is the drop-out IIT Bombay and has studied at the London School of Economics.
Dropout IITs Among 6 Arrested for Scam ‘Investment’
