Yogesh K Porwar
The East division police have registered a case against a NRI woman from UK and her family members who lured a 25-year-old city based pre owned bikes showroom owner into investment and made away with Rs.38.8 lakh.
Based on the complaint filed by Vignesh Kumar,the police have registered an FIR charging the accused identified as Lakshmi Priya and her family members under various section of IT Act and cheating for further investigations. on Monday .
The victim in his complaint,said that while searching for a bride in Bharat Matrimony,he came across the profile of Lakhsmi Priya in March this year and both texted each other .
After formal introduction through voice calls,she introduced her family members and uncle who was running an investment firm in UK.
During Rama Navami,Vignesh Kumar and Family made a video call to chat with Priya to confirm about the proposal .
After both the family agreed and confirmed that they would be coming to India for 45 days in April to their home town in Vizag .
While discussing about the marriage,she lured him to investment in her uncle’s firm to get good returns for the marriage.Trusting her words Vignesh made a initial investment online for Rs.65,000.
“Through mobile app UPI ID which she sent me and day by day she was showing and giving me an good profit in that platform application .
In order to check Vignesh even withdraw Rs.5000 to check and successfully received in my bank account”, he said in his complaint.
But little did he realized that it was a bait and following her advise he invested an additional ₹25 lakh.The investment was showing in the mobile APP ID and after trading some shares the profit reached ₹1.4 crore .
The cheating started when Vignesh was informed that his trade link is being closed for taxation purpose and told him to pay tax of ₹17,56,600 as as tax amount of 15 per cent along with the additional 3 per cent service fee of ₹3.5 lakh with a total of ₹21.07 lakh as per the UK Law .
Vignesh spoke to Priya seeking help where she assured to share some of her savings and also talk to her uncle to reduce 2 per cent in the total amount of tax payment .
Convinced by this and hoping to get the profit,Vignesh borrowed money and paid online,Though the accused said that they would share the tax payment receipt in three days,they are not out of coverage area since then.
After repeated attemptshe realized that he has been cheated with a total of ₹38,85,000 and approached the police seeking help to get back his cheated money .
