DELHI POLICE CRIME UPDATE – Four cheats apprehended with US dollars (1,95,500/-) , Indian Currency (Rs. 4,04,000/-) & Raw material of Millions Dollars recovered.

On May 25, 2014

Four cheats apprehended with US dollars (1,95,500/-) , Indian Currency (Rs. 4,04,000/-) & Raw material of Millions Dollars recovered.

Incident: –
On 19/05/14 one PCR call vide DD No.30A was received at 10.54 PM at PS Chanakya Puri, New Delhi wherein it was mentioned that some persons in one car No.DL-2CM-4986 having committed theft in Gurgaon is loitering near Taj Hotel Chanakya Puri, New Delhi. On receipt of this information Inspector Banay Singh (SHO Chanakya Puri, New Delhi) along-with his local police staff got activated and reached the place of information. At 11.30 PM another PCR call was received at PS Chanakya Puri stating that 3-4 Nigerians looking persons have been apprehended by PCR van staff near Netherland Embassy and the apprehended persons have cheated the complainant.

On receipt of this information Inspector Banay Singh (SHO Chanakya Puri) along-with local police force reached the place of incident i.e. Kwame Nkrumah Marg near Netherland Embassy. At the spot PCR van staff reported that three persons who appear to be Nigerians by the looks have been apprehended by them but one more person is hiding in the nearby area. Search for the said person was made and by the assistance of local police fourth person was also apprehended. The complainant reported that these apprehended persons have cheated him of his hard earned money. He was advised to give his complaint in writing so that all the facts could be understood and proper action initiated as per law. Formal look at the car of the apprehended persons showed that there were some suspicious items in the car but as it was night time, all the four apprehended persons and the car bearing number DL-2CN-4986, were brought to PS Chanakya Puri for the purpose of verification and inquiry.

Efforts were made to clarify things from the apprehended persons but apart from their names no other information came out as they were not responding properly to the queries giving reason that they do not know Hindi or English. In the morning the complainant gave his hand written complainant ., Haryana and works as a sales manager. In the month of Feb 2014 he started looking to procure a high Specification bike (Super Bike) on the internet and came across an online posting on site OLX.com. The ad claimed to be selling a Suzuki Hayabusa GSX 1300R for a mere Rs 3.5 lacs against a market value of Rs. 15 lacs. He reached out to an individual called ANIL PATIL from Mumbai Maharashtra, who then offered to sell bike @ Rs. 3.5 lac. Price of bike was extracted in advance & he was then asked to look at buying high end luxury cars @ throwaway prices. He ended up paying Rs 3.5 lacs to Anil Patil over a period of 1-2 months to various different bank account. Patil then went missing but forwarded his number to a Mr. James who while claiming to have access to similar Cars & bike, got him contacted to a person called Mathew. Mathew met him in person on 17th March (Holi Day) at Ambience Mall, Gurgaon. Mathew then proceeded to show Manjit Chadha a black paper note which he cleaned with a chemical mix exposing a US Dollar. Manjit’s interest lied solely in getting access to a car or bike but these individuals forced him to instead only look at the currency conversion. Manjit was assured of the return of his money within a few days but in the dollar form. Faced by this intrigued situation Manjit decided to pursue the option a bit. These individuals, James & Mathew then introduced Manjit to someone called Kwame who they said was chief security officer in UK embassy. Mathew also called himself an officer of UK embassy & so did James. They then started forcing Manjit to give them money for the purpose of procuring chemicals that could be needed to clean a large consignment of black paper bills. Manjit was mentally traumatized, constantly cajoled & given money stories to make him believe & give them money. Over a period of 2.5 months Manjit gave this group about $ 45,000 or Rs27 lacs.

On the day of 19th May, these individuals transported a box to Manjit claiming the box have a few million dollars. The box was a safe with combination of locks & physical Key. But Manjit had access to none. They then sent a technician called Khalifa to Manjit to perform the procedure. For procedure to be Successful Manjit was asked to procure Rs 15 lacs in 1000 rupee denominations. During the process of “cleaning” the black bills, technician Khalifa started acting suspiciously. On accosting him he fled with Manjit’s 10 lac rupee.

In order to pursue, capture & bring to justice this group Manjit called the group head Kwame & told him to send his people back for more money. The technician Khalifa was resent in order to collect the promised money. Manjit tried apprehending Khalifa but he ran away and this incident happened in front of Taj Hotel, Chanakyapuri. Then Khalifa jumped into a waiting car and fled. Manjit chased the car. Before fleeing the scene, driver of getaway car tried running Manjit over as well but he persisted & pursued them & was ably assisted by Delhi Police PCR team.

On receipt of this complaint the search of the car bearing No.DL-2CM 4986 was carried out and during the search of the said car one ‘Iron rod’ was recovered from the car. During further search a total 98 notes ‘100 US Dollars which were printed from one side only’ were also recovered from the dashboard of the car which was used by the apprehended persons namely Kwame, Timothy, Tabij @ Khalifa and Ladji. The apprehended persons were interrogated in this regard but they again showed non co-operation to the process of inquiry. All of them kept on saying ‘I don’t know, I don’t know, from Nigeria’. When the apprehended persons were asked to produce their passport/identity details, they failed to provide any such details. The ‘Iron rod’ and ‘fake/forged US dollars’ recovered from the car were seized and taken into police possession.

In view of the above noted facts and circumstances the case FIR No.109/14, U/s 420/489A/489C/489D/34 IPC & 12 PP Act was registered and further investigation was taken up.
During the course of investigation all the accused persons namely 1. Mathew Bobsy Imonitie S/o Imonitie R/o 21 Lusaka Street, Wuse 2 Abuja, Nigeria, aged-42 years 2. Ouattara Djebo Lazar S/o Coulibaly Ladji R/o Abidjam, Port Bouet, Ivory Coast, aged-37 years 3. Timothee Moleka S/o Ignace Moleka Liboke R/o flat No. 20, Avbo calve, city Ngaliema, Kinsasa, Congo, aged 23 years and 4. Tibidje Yves @ Khalifa S/o Yougene Tabi Rabent R/o Abidjancy Kowmassi Remblais Lat 285, 1 cut 205, coted Ivoire, aged-34 years, were arrested in the above noted case u/s 420/489A/489C/489D/34 IPC & 12 PP Act. During personal search of the accused persons some more fake/forged ‘US Dollars’ have been recovered from all the above noted accused persons.

As the arrested accused persons have not co-operated in the investigation of the case an application was moved in the Hon’ble court of Ms Gomati Manocha, MM Patiala House courts, New Delhi and two days P/C remand of the accused persons was sought in order to unearth the source of fake/forged currency notes found in their car and in their pockets as well and also for further investigation of this case.
Following is the synopsis of the case and investigation conducted so far:

1. Complainant Manjit Chadha came across an advertisement on OLX.com in order to buy a costly Bike in the month of Feb 2014.
2. One Mr Anil Patil came in contact with the complainant and offered to sell the bike shown in the OLX advertisement for Rs 3.5 lacs whereas the said bike was originally costing around Rs 15 lacs.
3. Complainant deposited Rs 3.5 lacs in the account numbers provided by Anil Patil but the said motor bike (Suzuki Hayabusa GSX 1300R) was not delivered to the complainant.
4. Anil Patil introduced the complainant to James as the person who will deliver the bike for which the payment was made to Anil Patil.
5. From then onwards James continuously kept contact with the complainant and played a ‘father figure role’ in this cheating with the complainant. James introduced himself as member of UK Embassy.
6. James then introduced the complainant to one Mathew (Mathew Bobsy Imonitie S/o Imonitie R/o 21 Lusaka Street, Wuse 2 Abuja, Nigeria, aged-42 years), who is presently in custody. He along-with James and others (Kwame, Khalifa etc) started contacting and cheating the complainant. On 17/03/14 James then sent Mathew to meet the complainant at Ambience Mall Gurgaon Haryana. Mathew showed the cleaning process of ‘Black bills’ to the complainant and he deposed as the person who smuggles out the ‘Black bills or US Dollar boxes’ from UK Embassy Chanakya Puri, New Delhi. Mathew impersonated himself to be PA to a high ranking diplomat Mr Beckham. Mathew had handed over one box to the complainant on 24.04.2014 and was asked to keep it safe for a period of time till the time the cleaning solution bottle was procured.
7. One Kwame was introduced to the complainant (over the phone) by Mathew on 1st April 2014. Kwame represented himself as Chief Security Officer, U K Embassy. From then onwards, Kwame became the main point of contact and he portrayed himself to be the one helping Mathew smuggle out cash safe containing ‘Black bills/US Dollars’ from UK Embassy New Delhi. Approximately Rs.19 lacs were deposited in about 17 different accounts as the same were provided by Kwame by way of ‘sms’ to the complainant.
8. Kwame then sent one Mr Paul to the complainant. Mr Paul introduced himself as a cleaning technician and he even showed one box containing black dollar bills and a bottle of solution to clean the bills. The said box was told to contain 2 million dollars black bills in it. The solution bottle was found to be broken and in order to purchase a new bottle, more money was extracted from the complainant. Paul introduced the complainant to one Mr Raymond from Indonesia and told that he will come to India in order to assist Paul in the cleaning process of black dollar bills and again money was extracted from the complainant. At one point of time in the month of April 2014, all the conspirators tried to show that there is some dispute among them and the delay tactics were played upon the complainant.
9. After that Kwame sent 2nd technician namely Khalifa to undertake the cleaning process on 19th May 2014. Khalifa on the pretext of cleaning black dollar bills tricked the complainant and ran away with Rs. 10 Lacs from Gurgaon residence of the complainant. Subsequently in order to apprehend the culprits, Khalifa was lured by the complainant on the pretext of more money and was asked to come at Hotel Taj Palace. When Khalifa came there, complainant tried to get hold of him but Khalifa managed to run away in a car in which 3 more persons were there. Their car was chased by complainant and he informed PCR also. Ultimately they were caught by the complainant and police staff on the night of 19th May 2014 .

Recoveries made so far: –
10. On the searching and frisking, initially 9800 fake US Dollars in the denomination of 100 each (one side printed) were recovered from the car used by the accused persons. During physical search of the accused persons, 6900 fake US Dollars in the denomination of 100 each (both side printed) were recovered. Apart from fake US Dollars, one iron rod measuring 24” was also recovered from the car.
11. During the course of investigation and subsequent raids carried out during PC Remand of accused persons, huge amount of fake US Dollars and INR notes, equipments used to mint the fake currency, equipments used to cheat the complainant and various other articles used in complete conspiracy were recovered. 1,95,500 fake US Dollars amounting to Rs. 1,13,00,000 (approx Rupees One Crore Thirteen Lacs) and 4,04,000 (Four Lacs and Four Thousand) fake INR have been recovered till date. Apart from above, black bills used to cheat on the pretext of black US Dollars and 1000s of pink/black colour paper and scanner/printer used to mint the fake currency has also been recovered. Further investigation is in progress.

Persons Arrested: –
Four accused persons are in police custody and their details are:
1. Mathew Bobsy Imonitie S/o Imonitie R/o 21 Lusaka Street, Wuse 2 Abuja, Nigeria, aged-42 years
2. Ouattara Djebo Lazar S/o Coulibaly Ladji R/o Abidjam, Port Bouet, Ivory Coast, aged-37 years
3. Timothee Moleka S/o Ignace Moleka Liboke R/o flat No. 20, Avbo calve, city Ngaliema, Kinsasa, Congo, aged 23 years and
4. Tibidje Yves @ Khalifa S/o Yougene Tabi Rabent R/o Abidjancy Kowmassi Remblais Lat 285, 1 cut 205, Coted Ivoire, aged-34 years