Bengaluru: Two entrepreneurs from the city have approached the police until a woman, posed as a daughter of a planter in Ooty, cheated them money.
While my 28-year-old drawing loses Rs 6 lakh to Kamala from the layout of McEchs, Sampigehalli, a 34-year-old businessman from Kanakapura claiming he took Rs 13 lakh from him.
Police said employers knew formally because they were a public friend of the suspect.
The police did not have other details of Kamala who were friends with people who said their father had tea plantations in Ooty.
Said the black money was trapped in Kerala and he needed cash to get it, Kamala borrowed money from them.
The police have registered the first information report (FIR) against Kamala under the IPC 420 (cheating and triggering properties).
“Our probe is in the early stages now and a cellular phone accused of being turned off,” said a police officer.
The businessman stated in his complaint that he met with women earlier this year through the Matrimonial website.
“We became friends and one day, he took me to his house.
Then, he took me to the building under the construction of the Colony dollar and said it was his house.
That day, he asked me to RS 3 Lakh, said he needed to pay for the interior decoration .
I gave him a number Shifted to rented accommodation.
Also, he has bought a Sports Utility vehicle (SUV) after raising a vehicle loan from the bank in my name.
After that he remains incommunicado, “he said.
Complaints of brokers are too running on similar rows.
“We became friends in January 2020 when he approached me looking for a rental house.
Then, he told me that he had a lot of property in the city and I had to keep them a manager.
However, I refused.
One day, he showed a currency bundle video And stated that it was his black money.
A few months ago, he took Rs 6.5 lakh from me saying he needed it to return the black money, “he said.