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The Noida police on Monday arrested four men of a cyber fraud gang, including a Nigerian national, for allegedly defrauding a bank of Rs 16 crore in connection with a case registered in June 2024, officials said.

They also seized Rs 50,000 cash, eight chequebooks, seven mobile phones, one laptop, two passports, and drugs worth Rs 20 lakh from the accused identified as Umealakei Emeka (Nigerian national), 53, Mohammed Shahvez, 26, Amit Gupta, 28, and Deepak Gupta, 39, said officials at Sector-36 Cyber Thana Police.

According to Ram Badan Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Noida, the main accused, Mohammad Shavez, provided account details of innocent people at Nainital Bank through which the accused used to transfer the defrauded money.

Singh said that as per the First Information Report (FIR) registered at the Sector 36 police station, fraudsters reportedly hacked and looted Rs 16.1 crore from Nainital Bank’s Noida branch.

“The fraudsters accomplished their plan by hacking into the bank’s server and then transferring the money to 84 different accounts,” said the DCP.
According to the police, the bank’s IT manager, Sumit Srivastava, noticed the scam during a routine reconciliation of the bank’s balance sheet.

He noticed Rs 36,09,04,020 in the RTGS account balance sheets and registered a case at Noida Cyber Crime Police Station, the police said.

He also sought assistance from CERT-IN (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) to probe the matter.

The police said Emelka has been involved in cybercrime and the drug trade for a long time. “We have also recovered MDMA tablets, which is about Rs 20 lakh,” Singh added.

Delhi Police’s Crime Branch has arrested two Nigerian nationals from Uttam Nagar for supplying drugs in the national capital, officials said on Monday.

The accused have been identified as Michael Okwu (30) and Chidubem Stanley (43), they said.

On Friday, police got a tip-off that an African person was supplying methamphetamine near Nawada Metro Station. Police laid a trap and nabbed the drug supplier from Uttam Nagar with the recovery of 53 grams of methamphetamine (commercial quantity) worth several lakhs, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime) Harsh Indora said.

Later, one more Nigerian national who is a member of this gang was arrested, police said, adding that the gang uses Nigerian numbers and makes calls only through the internet to avoid getting caught and to hide identity.

Police recovered 60 grams of Methamphetamine and packaging equipment used for supplying drugs.

Okwu disclosed that he came to India in 2019. Facing financial issues, he recently came into contact with members of the African community residing in Delhi and started selling drugs.

He revealed that he used to buy drugs from another African national residing in South Delhi and sold them in small quantities to buyers in the areas of Uttam Nagar and Dwarka, police said.

Stanley was earlier arrested under the NDPS Act at Mongolpuri police station.

Peter Obi is torn between the desire to live up to his default penchant for primitive accumulation and the need to deliver some "action governor" credentials to satisfy the teaming millions who stood behind his fake messiah image during his early days in Anambra politics. For all his window dressings and lofty talks about saving Anambra, this man has grossly underachieved in spite of the enormous goodwill that greeted his arrival at the state house

Peter Obi is for big business and has a vaulting personal ambition of dominating businesses all over Anambra. In places like Onitsha , until recently he only constructs roads leading to the premises of some big businesses in which he may have shady interests while roads leading to the biggest commercial center in the city rots.

iampeterben:
We thank God for his freedom.

nairalanda1:
Beerfraud, you should stop hating igbos.

You are getting to old for this.

chiagozien:
Are Yoruba not cowards?




Remind me of IBB quote.

Peter Obi is very dirty man who never biult any closed drainage system in the whole state throughout his tenure.

Melkizedeck:
Lol. Na you go tire!!
You better think of how to make the Black Race Great with the time you have and not this Gibberish. Same way I tell Igbos not to bash the great Yoruba nation or any other nation/ tribe.

Please let's stop these madness abeg.

Eriokanmi:
This is nice. I don't blame Indians or other countries arresting our people wrongly. When the head is already bad, what do you expect? What we see each time we travel is unexplainable. Nowadays, once they see that you're carrying a Nigerian passport, they ask you to stay aside for proper screening while they allow other african nationals to proceed to their various boarding gates without serious checks. They search you from head to toes. You just have to comply.

What most people don't know is, these people know about Nigeria far beyond what we think. They get every information about Nigeria, first hand. They've known about tinubu since he was contesting an election, the same way we try to learn about other countries' presidential candidates, their antecedents,schools attended, age, etc. The moment tinubu won the highly rigged election with collusion with the inec by shutting down the server and all, ordinary Ghana was dragging us on the floor on twitter. You don't want to see those comments. South africans too, calling tinubu drug baron turned president. They didn't lie after all. He did it and forfeited so much money to escape justice.

I remember when one ijesha man, who owned one of the biggest electronics shops at Dugbe in Ibadan in the 90s. His store was called Gunde Electromix for those living in Ibadan in the 90s, not far from Akran Stores, the thermo cool fridge dealer. His brother owned a popular printing press with its fence extending towards Ibadan toll gate from orita-new garage, almost opposite eagle flower plant. They're Abegundes,very popular. This man used to carry drugs enter UK. One day, he was caught and jailed. They gave him an option to pay a ridiculous amount of money which his printer brother had to pay before they could release him. He also forfeited a large sum in his uk-domiciled account. Tinubu's forfeiture and this man's case was quite similar. The forfeiture isn't a lie, no Nigerian can say they framed tinubu up. Despite all these, he forged his way into presidency. No foreign country would see a Nigerian and would Accord him any respect. Since he's been traveling,looking for investors, how many has he gotten so far, with all the MOUs signed? They'd never come.

Congratulations to the guy for his freedom. There are several Nigerians wrongfully incarcerated in the various foreign prisons while some actually committed the crimes.

If you have a decent leader, others will respect you and your nationals. Joe Biden avoided meeting with tinubu in one of his last appearances at the world leadership meetings but the federal government covered it up. But we knew what happened. Before any foreigner would want to deal with you. They do several due diligence on you as if you're a criminal like your president. Too bad

nairalanda1:
Beerfraud, you should stop hating igbos.

You are getting to old for this.

osuofia2:
India police and Judiciary is among the most corrupt systems In the world. Very mumu country. Wetin person de find go India

oluwaseyi0:
They just wasted 15 years of his life

nairalanda1:
Whatever, hating people on the basis of tribe and politics will do you more harm than good.

owobokiri:
The MODs that repeatedly push this guys anti igbo topics to the front page, are the ones fanning the embers of tribalism in this place. Everyone knows that the OP is nothing but a high voltage tribalist and a totally inebriated APCs Internet hirelings. So from the get go, his of no use and we all know! But on daily basis, as the presidential election nears, the op and his likes have started with their similar 2015/2023 propaganda tactics, which is to frighten the whole country with some crazy anti igbo stories hoping that Nigerianswill continue to grow warry of any seriouscandidate from the east. Devilish tribalism. Unfortunately, the MODs on this site have consciously made this place available for this kind of ethnic hate. I don't know how the management of this site do it; I mean you claim to be against tribalism, but will quietly allow the most virulent bigots to ply their trade unhindered here. That is wild..

nairalanda1:
You can be better than this, old man young lady .

onyerhuku:
See as u no get sense. Tribal war has really eaten deep into you guys on nairaland that any post u see here, instead of condemning the act, all u care about is how to insult tribes as if crimes are not happening everywhere and by every tribe. You need help.

Orantundepush:
When they catch ipob, they put them in detention but when terrorists are caught in the north, they deradicalize them.
Make Una continue.

Celestialsword:
You know you don't have the brain and intelligence to argue with facts and figures yet, you still collects stipends to defend your principals.

You're such a full and inconsequential cretin that follows the crowd because of the crumbs they give to you.

What a low life.

A North Goa court acquitted Nigerian national Manday Felix Odede in a narcotics case, 15 years after he was arrested at Calangute. No independent witnesses were examined.
The 465g of a narcotic worth Rs 23.3 lakh found on him was found to be cocaine after chemical analysis.

However, the 45g of MDMA worth Rs 90,000 tested positive in the spot test but negative after it was sent for chemical analysis.
“The prosecution failed to prove the yellow powder allegedly found in the possession of the accused was MDMA,” observed North Goa additional sessions judge, Sharmila A Patil.
The court further observed that the evidence of police witnesses was full of discrepancies and could not be considered in the absence of independent witnesses.

No independent pancha witnesses were examined to prove the raid, it stated. It added that as they are residents of Goa, their presence could have been secured or at least some efforts made to produce them before the court. “In matters of NDPS cases where punishment is stringent, the proof required is also stringent,” the court stated.

Although a police witness gave a “detailed narration of the manner in which the raid was conducted”, in the cross-examination, a very convenient answer was given by this witness with respect to the material facts of the raid, as ‘I do not remember’, which does not corroborate the facts mentioned in his chief examination, the court observed.

“ If he was present at the time of the raid, these details could have been deposed by him in the same manner in which he deposed the facts in his chief examination,” it observed.