PUNE: A Pimpri resident (39) on Tuesday lodged a police complaint stating that unidentified callers, who posed as executives of a Japanese multinational pharma company, duped him of Rs28 lakh after offering him a commission for supply of minerals from a firm in Meghalaya.
In June, the callers had convinced him to transfer the money for taking forward the deal, but stopped communicating with him after receiving the amount. The man, who works with a Swedish multinational industrial firm, had forwarded a complaint application to the cyber police. Following a verification, an FIR was registered with the Pimpri police.
A Pimpri police officer said on June 3, the complainant had received a message on a social media platform from a man, who identified himself as an executive director of a pharmaceutical company from Japan. “The person told the complainant that the company is into health technology and wanted to start an office in India for buying minerals. He offered the complainant to work with the firm in India,” the officer said.
He said the complainant accepted the offer. “After some days, a woman contacted the complainant and told him that the company had decided to buy xanthocomite mineral from a firm in Meghalaya. She urged the complainant to act as a mediator and finalise the deal worth Rs4.5 crore,” he said.
“He was also lured of the seven per cent commission on that deal. They sent him an ‘MOU’ of the deal,” he said.
The officer said the fraudsters took money from the complainant under the pretext of making purchases or payment of different charges.
“Till June 23, the complainant transferred Rs29lakh to three bank accounts. When he refused to pay more money, the suspects stopped answering his calls,” the police officer said.
