Sahara Reporters
The police in India have busted a pan-India hawala racket with possible links outside the country and arrested three persons including a Nigerian national, The Times of India reports.
The police also froze about 30 bank accounts having transactions worth Rs 7 crore which, though in names of different persons, was operated by accused Jatin Pala and Mohit Parmar.
Pala and Mohit’s handler, a Nigerian citizen identified as Rafael Addedio Yinka, was also arrested from Mumbai on Wednesday.
“It is suspected that the money from the bank accounts was transferred to Nigeria through hawala. We will be questioning Rafael to know where the money was being channelised,” said Jamnagar assistant superintendent of police Nitish Pandey.
“This is an organised racket where the accused targetted people in different cities with lure of attractive offers. They cheated them and extorted money from them which they deposited in different accounts of other victims.”
