11-05-2025
2 sr citizens duped of 67L in investment fraud, 1 held
Mumbai: A 24-year-old man was arrested by the Cyber Police in connection with a Rs 67 lakh
investment fraud
where the bank account of a farmer was used to receive money swindled from two elderly women.
Police are now looking for his associate who is based out of Karnataka. The two elderly women are siblings and live in Girgaon.
They had invested in mutual funds through a financial services company. On Jan 16, one of the sisters found her phone number being added to a WhatsApp group having the same name as the financial services company. The group admin was an "investment advisor" named Shruti Baheti. She offered the elderly woman a deal to earn a handsome profit by investing in a block shares deal. In March, Baheti convinced the woman into downloading an app for making investments. The woman initially paid Rs 50,000 which showed up in her account on the app. Once her sister found out, she too downloaded the app and got in touch with Baheti for investment opportunities. Both the sisters invested Rs 67.15 lakh collectively. On April 5, the sisters told Baheti that they wanted to withdraw Rs 50 lakh. But she warned them of hefty taxes and penalties payable at the time of withdrawal. The sisters soon gathered that they had been taken for a ride when they could not withdraw any money.
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