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On Wednesday, the VP Road police arrested a 48-year-old Nigerian national from New Delhi for allegedly duping a diamond broker from south Mumbai of Rs 1.16 crore, IndiaExpress reports. The police said the accused, Akeredolu Joseph Olajide, is part of the larger group that creates fake accounts on social media, approaches people through these accounts and then dupes them under the pretext of sending gifts. The gang approached the diamond broker, a resident of Girgaon who has an office at Bharat Diamond Bourse in BKC, on Instagram on October 10, last year. The profile was created under the name of a woman, Alex Zendra, said police. They added that the accused claimed to be a captain at a ship in the United Kingdom. “We started chatting on WhatsApp and after a few days, Zendra told me that she loves me and wanted to marry me. She aspired to start a business with me in Mumbai. On October 17, she sent me a video in which she showed branded shoes, gold chains, watches and US dolla...

Heroin A 26-year-old Nigerian was arrested on Thursday with seven kilograms of heroin, which was bought from Delhi and was supposed to be delivered to one of the city’s pubs, said the police on Friday. The suspect has been identified as one Bethel Kelechi Aroh of Lagos, Nigeria. He is presently living in Delhi, said the police.  Heroin They arrested the suspect from outside Ambience Mall near Sirhaul toll plaza and allegedly recovered heroin from his possession, Hindustantimes reports. Preet Pal Sangwan, the assistant commissioner of police (crime), said the suspect used to buy drugs from peddlers in Delhi and supplied them to pubs and bars in Gurugram. “He used to live in Delhi, but we are yet to verify the details. We have recovered a photocopy of his passport and have sent the details to Nigerian high commission through the Foreigners Regional Registration Officer (FRRO). But we are yet to receive their reply,” he said. During questioning, the suspect allegedly trie...

Five men, including three from Nepal and one from Nigeria, were arrested on Friday for allegedly cheating a woman in southwest Delhi Kishangarh area. The accused have been identified as Prakash Gurung (24), Paras Mehto (25), Ankit (20), all residents of Nepal, and Vinay Kumar (25), a resident of Bihar and Chijioke (37), a resident of Nigeria, they said. Police received a complaint where the woman alleged that she met a man named Dr Vijay Giri in one of the online dating apps. They became friends and started chatting on Whatsapp. Giri claimed that he is a US citizen based in the UK and wanted to meet her, the woman alleged. Around ten months later, she received a call from Giri who told her that he had landed in Mumbai and is stuck with customs officials for carrying foreign currency and extra luggage and needed money to pay the fine and bribe, a senior police officer said. On his request, she then transferred money in various accounts provided to her. The victim was cheate...

Two suspected remand prisoners in the Abokobi-Ayimensah Police’s custody in the Ga East District of the Greater Accra Region broke out of jail on New Year’s Day. Suspects Chukuda Onyabu, a Nigerian aged 27, and Emmanuel Osei, 26, who were facing charges of possession of narcotic drugs and conspiracy to commit crimes and stealing respectively were detained awaiting the next court date. But police revealed that on the morning of January 1, 2021, it was detected that the two suspected criminals had escaped from the cells by using the iron rod used at the ventilation hole of the bathroom’s door to scrape a portion of the cell’s wall and removed one of the blocks and escaped through the created hole. Police confirmed to MyNewsGh.com that efforts were underway to arrest the suspects whose images circulated to various police outlets in and outside Accra. CRIME Drugs News AddThis :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :  from 2...

The police have begun an investigation into the discovery of a tunnel in Orile area of Lagos State, allegedly to be used by ritualists.  The news went around the densely-populated Orile and its environs on Wednesday that dismembered human parts discovered inside the School Bus Stop tunnel. Two persons, alleged to be ritualists, were said to have been found with human parts. One of them, whose identity could not be ascertained, was burnt to death by a mob.  However, the second suspect escaped the same fate as he was rescued by policemen attached to Orile Division.  A resident, who gave his name as Segun, told Vanguard that “a man who was seen around the tunnel on Tuesday, suddenly disappeared.  During a search for the missing man, the tunnel was discovered. The search team said they saw a man inside the tunnel and invited the Odua Peoples Congress members. The OPC members entered the tunnel only to find some human parts and many male and female clothing....