Japanese duped, culprits booked after 6 months

Our Correspondent

Gurugram, April 3

A Japanese national working in Gurugram has been duped of over Rs 1.7 crore. Though the incident took place around six months ago, an FIR was registered today after he approached the Chief Minister and the DGP through the Twitter.

According to Takanori Takeda, he is in India on work visa. He came in contact with Asang Chang at KARA Karaoke Bar in October 2019. Asang introduced herself as the manager-cum-partner of the bar. She and her partner Prakash became good friends with him and she also introduced him to her sister.

“On March 21, 2020, Asang demanded Rs. 7.5 lakh towards the payment of remittance charge for the release of an international parcel. I agreed to help her and transferred Rs. 5.5 lakh to her bank account in March 2020. Asang claimed that her cousin Wong, who lives in the USA, is a rich man. He would send Rs 50 crore to her in a few months. She showed me a document issued by the Ministry of Finance that she has to deposit Rs 12.24 lakh to get her money released. I believed her story and lent her Rs 1.85 crore. Thereafter, Asang and her associate stopped picking up my phone calls and started avoiding me. I then realised that I have been duped,” said Takanori in his complaint.

In October last year, he filed a complaint with the Gurugram police but no action was taken against the accused. It was on March 29 this year that he posted a complaint on the Twitter handles of the Chief Minister, Home Minister Anil Vij, DGP and other senior officers. “I had lodged a police complaint but no FIR was registered even after six months. How can we feel secure in such a situation?”, he wrote on the Twitter.

Seeing the complaint on the Twitter, the Gurugram police swung into action and registered an FIR against the accused under Sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 420 (cheating) of the IPC at DLF Sector 29 police station. The case was being investigated, a police official said.