LUCKNOW: Three fraudsters, including the mastermind of a gang which had fleeced several persons while impersonating as owners of car agencies, were nabbed by a team of STF from Para on Saturday.
The gang is facing over 30 cases of fraud in Ghaziabad and Bareilly, besides cities in Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh.
The arrested men are Vijay Kumar Prajapati and Amiruddin aka Amir of Delhi and Pradeep Sharma of Ghaziabad. The team recovered a car, five mobile phones, three Adhaar cards, three SIM cards and other documents. They were named in a case registered at Ghazipur police station.
The case was registered by the then manager of SBI (Ismailganj branch) Swati Agrawal in 2021.
The fraudsters had posed as owners of a car agency and asked her to transfer over Rs 33 lakh. However, it surfaced that the real owner of the agency had not made any request of transaction.
