South African national and his aide from Mumbai held for fraud

A 37-year-old South African and a Mulund resident allegedly used to cheat people by taking money from them and give them bogus demand drafts of foreign banks.

The police said Telli Gully unit of the crime branch got information that two persons having bogus demand drafts would come near Shivsagar Hotel on Nehru Road at Vile Parle (E) on Friday.

The police team laid a trap and arrested Emanuel Augustine Nuseb, 37, a resident of Johannesburg, and Ravindrasingh Waccher, 52, from Mulund. They also seized bogus demand drafts of foreign banks, a laptop, two pen drives, four mobile phones and SIM cards.

“After going through the laptop and mobile phone details, we found scanned images of demand drafts of various foreign banks including reputed banks of the US and Kuwait. One of the demand drafts worth $9 million in the name of a Hong Kong-based company was found on them,” said a crime branch officer requesting anonymity.

“We suspect that they scanned images of the demand drafts of various foreign banks and stored it in their computer and mobile phones,” said the officer.