Letter: Sleuth Cyberrime arrested a 32-year-old Nigerian from Faridabad in Haryana on Tuesday because of his alleged involvement in the online kidney sales racket.
The defendant, Gregory Yermadeh, Benin City’s native in Nigeria, was the mastermind behind the racket where people were captivated to sell kidneys for RS four crore through online advertising.
Yermadeh has arrived in India on a visitor visa and operates a racket for the past three years.
He lived in Bengaluru but was being managed for the past month after his colleagues were arrested in July.
Previously, the police had arrested Toty Dago Gregoire Kouduo Toti Augustin, 33, native residents of Ivory Coast and Tikendrajet Dhirnchandra Bora, 30, from Bengaluru.
Toty developed a website similar to a leading state hospital and advertisements posted looking for kidney sellers.
“On this racket, the police arrested the top operator first.
They deceived poor people who are ready to sell their organs for money,” said Y a Gohil, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Cybercrime Cell.
The police claimed that the total Nine Lakh Hospital had been blocked in various accounts of banks accused.
The complaint was filed on July 13 by Arbaz Rana, a 25-year-old man who was dealing with a used car, which was cheated between September to October 2020.
Rana told the police that there was no business for the past three years and he wants money to get his sister marry.
Because of the financial crisis, he has decided to sell his kidney and make money quickly.
The investigation revealed that the defendant offered Rs 4 Crore to Rs 7 Crore for the kidneys on the fake sites of the main hospital such as Manipal Hospital, Apollo, Max Super Specialty, Lilavati, Tata Memorial, Garden City, Fortis and others.
They also make fake websites for Forex trading and Bitcoin investment.
The police found that Tory created a fake website that offered work in airlines, agriculture, oil and gas, construction, dairy and courier for shipping sectors in the UK, Canada and the US.
He created a fake website to exchange old currencies and also made a separate website that offered a visa from various countries.
They use four e-mail id that looks similar to the RBI official ID.
Trusting one of these websites, Rana called the WhatsApp number mentioned in one of them in September 2020.
The woman at the other end introduced her as Dr.
Shilpa Kumari from Manipal Hospital in Bengaluru.
The police claimed that it was a false identity given by the woman.
Then the shutter was contacted by different individuals by telephone and email.
The defendant convinced the shutter that he would get RS two Crore before the operation and the remaining number will be paid afterwards.
They demanded the payment of various charges before surgery, and believed in those shutter pay money in various transactions through online payments.
In a short time Rana paid Rs 14.78 lakh.
When they continued to demand money for allegations, Rana realized that she was cheated.