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Pune: A cyber crook duped a 71-year-old retired school teacher from Vitthalnagar of Rs 20 lakh after posing as a deputy commissioner of police and putting her under the fear of arrest over “money laundering” between May 31 and June 3. “Between May 31 and June 3, the crook called her and claimed that a money laundering case had been registered against her and she was facing an imminent arrest. The crook had claimed that the police had earlier arrested a politician in the same case and sent photo of another political leader to her on a social media to support his claims,” said Nilesh Jagdale, inspector (crime) from Hadapsar police on Wednesday.

Jagdale said, “The victim is a retired school teacher from Rajasthan. She is currently residing in Hadapsar. She had initially received a call from crook posing as sub inspector from Delhi police.



The crook informed her about the case being registered against her and informed her that she would be arrested and jailed in Mumbai. The crook connected her to his aide on a social media platform where the another crook posed as a deputy commissioner of police.” He said the victim initially denied any involvement in money laundering.

The crook, then, sent a PDF of an FIR with her name among the accused and threatened to arrest her. The crook then forced the woman to transfer money to certain bank accounts to evade arrest, police said, adding that she transferred varying amounts in 10 transactions. A month after the incident, the victim approached the city police’s cybercrime unit and filed a complaint application and post verification, a case of offence relating to cheating was registered under the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act, he added.

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