Engineering student in Lithuania among 2 held for cheating Surat woman of Rs 23 crore

THE SURAT Cyber Crime Unit said on Saturday that it arrested two persons, including a civil engineering student at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania (Europe), and his aide, for allegedly cheating a Surat-based woman of Rs 23.38 crore. The police have found that the accused made different mule accounts and had been part of a Dubai-based Chinese gang allegedly involved in cheating Indian citizens.

Police said 338 cheating offences – to the tune of Rs 410 crore – have been registered against the duo in 20 states. The police identified the arrested accused as Abdul Rehman Akukara (23), a resident of Adajan Patia in Surat city and a second-year student at KTU, who reached Surat around three months ago from Lithuania, and his aide as Mohsin Khan (38), a resident of Nanpura in Surat who hails from Uttar Pradesh.

According to the police, the accused reached out to the complainant by promising high profits from share trading. They induced the complainant to download bogus applications and created a trading account in her name within these applications. Through these fraudulent apps, they coerced the complainant into transferring a total of Rs 23,38,800 into multiple accounts.