An inter-continental wind of felony with strong foreign influence is blowing over Amdavad these days. This notorious wind, carrying with it credit card frauds through phishing and forgery by cloning credit cards, blows in directly from the western tip of African continent to the western tip of Indian continent.
Surprised? Meet the new crime masters — the Nigerian gangsters — who are active across the country, however, 12 of them are under Gujarat police’s custody. The last one to add name to cops’ list on Tuesday is Victor Edenor Sende (31), a resident of Nigeria, and currently staying illegally at New Delhi.
Sende had come to Gujarat to sell his ‘Dollar Printing Machine’!
The Government Railway police (GRP) nabbed him at Kalupur railway station at 11:10am on Tuesday after a tip off from Railway police that he was aboard Jammu-Tavi express. Sende was living in a guest house in Rajkot guised as John Sheriff, and had identified himself as an employee of World Global Company, New Delhi. Unlike other Nigerians scamsters, he was not involved in any cyber crime, but graduated to a ‘dollar-making machine’ which he wanted to sell in Gujarat. “His arrest gives a new turn to the Nigerian crime story,” a police source said.
“So far, Nigerian gangs operated only on online and credit card frauds, but now they even use fake identity, issue fake identity cards and get involved in crimes normally conducted by Indian criminals,” said the police source, adding that Sende can even speak Hindi!
Dressed in an executive blazer, Sende was traveling in the general compartment and was hardly camouflaged. It was not hard for GRP to spot and arrest him after the tip off from Rajkot police.
Sende will be questioned along with other Nigerian friends lodged in various Gujarat jails for different cases of frauds and cyber crimes.
“He spent a few days at Rajkot to find client for his machine. But when he failed to get any, he threw away his bag and decided to go back to Delhi,” said police inspector, GRP, PP Pirozia. “It is learnt that Sende is staying in India illegally.His visa expired in April this year,” he added.
