Mumbai, February 27: The Malabar Hill police have booked a purported diamond dealer for duping an octogenarian of Rs4 crore on the pretext of upper returns on funding and releasing his diamond consignments.
The complainant, 83-year-old Parmanand Patel, resides alone and has a US-based daughter. In November 2019, the accused, Aditya Jogani, met Patel throughout his morning stroll at PDP Backyard in Malabar Hill. Over the following weeks, they turned good pals, following which Jogani launched his spouse Avni and likewise claimed to personal a diamond enterprise and good connections with the BJP. He gained Patel’s belief and satisfied him to put money into his enterprise.
Here is How Couple Duped The Sufferer
Between December 2020 and March 2021, Patel invested Rs52 lakh in Jogani’s firm Nirvana India Group. In Could 2021, Avni sought monetary help of Rs21 lakh from Patel to free her diamonds price Rs80 crore from the Customs, which the aged man transferred by way of RTGS.
Later, the couple sought a mortgage of Rs2.78 crore however Patel gave Rs2.45 crore. A number of days later, the couple once more sought assist beneath the pretext of releasing their diamond consignment from the Customs and took Rs70 lakh.
Sufferer Was Threatened By Couple:
When Patel requested for his a reimbursement, the 2 began avoiding him. When he continued, Jogani threatened to implicate his daughter within the US in some circumstances.
Patel then found that Jogani had earlier been arrested by the Financial Offences Wing in a fraud case whereby he had posed as the private assistant of IAS officer Ajoy Mehta. Patel then contacted the Malabar Hill police and lodged an FIR towards the couple. The matter is presently being investigated.