Cyber Crime sleuths of the CID have cracked a ‘Nigerian fraud’ case and arrested a travel agent from Delhi who duped a priest to the tune of Rs 43.26 lakh.

The priest had received an email from one Ben Jean James (email ID: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), who claimed herself to be a Catholic widow suffering from cancer. In the mail, Ben Jean James said that her husband left $ 2.8 million which she intends to donate for the service of orphans and the less privileged.

The priest, who took interest in running the orphanage, was asked to send money to claim the entire amount. Once he deposited the amount in a bank account mentioned by the accused, they asked for some more amount. The process continued and the priest ended up depositing Rs 43,26,700 in bank accounts of ICICI, Axis, HDFC, City, Standard Chartered and State Bank of India in Delhi, Mumbai and Pune.

After a few months after realised that he was cheated the priest approached the local police. During the investigation, police found that the money was deposited in the accounts belonging to Mukesh Munjal and others.

A team from Cyber Crime cell went to Delhi and nabbed the prime accused Mukesh, who confessed that he had received about Rs 31 lakh through his two ICICI accounts and after collecting a certain percentage gave the amount to his Nigerian bosses, Morris Mohale alias David, Phillips, Kone Armed and Bean Jean James, among others.

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