Panaji: Cyber crime cell of Goa police on Saturday arrested Akshay Nikam, a resident of Satara, Maharashtra, for allegedly cheating a Panaji resident of Rs 60 lakh to settle a fake money laundering case.Cybercrime SP Raju Desai said that Nikam contacted the complainant on WhatsApp and alleged that the victim had taken money from him.Desai said that other accused impersonated officials of the CBI Mumbai and a magistrate and contacted the complainant for being involved in money laundering cases.Desai said that the accused threatened the complainant that he was placed under surveillance over a video call and further coerced the complainant into settling the case by transferring Rs 60 lakh through an RTGS transaction in two different bank accounts.The SP said that following a technical investigation, the suspect was traced in Satara. A police team visited Satara to apprehend him. He said the investigation revealed that the accused received Rs 46 lakh in his bank account, which was subsequently routed to multiple accounts of his associates.“Analysis uncovered that this account was linked to 12 other cyber fraud cases across Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Goa, with a cumulative fraud amount of Rs 3.1 crore,” the cybercrime SP said.
