Two men from Udaipur were arrested yesterday for their association in online and net banking fraud that was spread throughout the country.

A Nigerian is running an illegal and fraudulent call centre in Mumbai through which these frauds are being executed. Udaipur duo were getting the online fraud money into the accounts of their relatives. They then used to buy jewellery and gold items from traders in the city with bill and tax invoices bringing the money into white economy. They then sold off this jewellery/gold to jewellers without bill at a lower amount and got cash amount. The duo then kept a portion of commission for themselves and transferred the balance amount to Mumbai.

The duo were caught by Ambamata Police Station. The mastermind was identified as Sandeep (40), a resident of Padmawati Complex, New Bhupalpura and his colleague Naresh (34), a resident of Bhupalpura.

Police have identified the prime mastermind in Mumbai as Nigerian Kelvin along with a lady Prema Dwarkadaa. Police has not yet been able to get their hand on the two.

Police had received insider information about the duo. Post the information, police setup check point near Rajiv Gandhi garden. The duo were stopped when they arrived on a motorcycle. On checking them, police recovered 11 lakh rupees from them, a gold biscuit that waas laminated along with 10 silver slabs. Police also recovered a large number of trading bills from the duo.