New Delhi: A 42-year-old man has been arrested in West Delhi because he cheated by people by reason making them get jobs in the Gulf countries allegedly posing as an IAS officer, police said on Tuesday.
The defendant shines Jyothi Sathya aka Siddik Abdul Rehman, a resident of Uttam Nagar West Delhi, comes from a village in the Alleppey district in Kerala.
He mostly targets people from Kerala who live in their home countries or in Delhi, they said.
Police said the defendant had so far cheated more than seven people to the Tone of Rs 10 Crore.
The problem was revealed after one of the victims who was cheated by Sathya registered a complaint at the police station SeilaPuri here alleged that he met the defendant in 2014 during a train trip when he introduced himself as “Indian Administrative Service Officer (IAS) posted at the Embassy UEE” , police said.
They said the defendant cheated the victim and his friends Rs 20 Lakh with the pretext of regulating visas for breastfeeding work in the Gulf countries.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara) R Sathiyasundaram said, “The number of cellphones was found to be turned off.
Analyzing the bank account details, the Probing Team learned that the defendant had a cash from a different location and also did some online shopping.
The new cellphone number was obtained and the defendant was arrested.” Interrogation revealed that Sathya used a “fake” ID card to prove his identity as an IAS officer.
He also used a fake ID card from the Ambassador of the UAE Ambassador and Airlines manager to deceive Kerala people who want to pursue nursing and other jobs in the Gulf countries, said a senior police officer.
“He also used a fake reserve letter of the Bank of India (RBI) to display himself as an entrepreneur based in Dubai and also showed ‘false’ transactions from Rs 44 Crore through his ‘business’ to take loans from Bank India.
According to our investigation.
found that he cheated a number of more than 10 crores from several victims from Kerala.
He also uses a fake email ID from the Saudi Labor Law Department to deceive the victim, “he said.
All false documents used by him have recovered, police said, adding that further investigation was taking place.