Mangalore : A major international fraud amounting to Rs 3.3 crores has been unearthed in Mangalore with the arrest of one Shameer Bashyar of Ullal. Police have seized two Innova cars, a Nissan car, and a bike. He was arrested following a complaint by a sea food industry of Mangalore. The arrested was working in the firm since nine years,
It is learnt, Bashyar in association with Mohammad Eshan, who too worked as a quality control executive, used to create fake email accounts and enter into understanding with fish importers on his own thereby causing loss to the company. A total of six persons are said to be involved in the racket and it is said they led a luxurious life and always travelled by flights within India and abroad and used to spend weekends abroad.
It has been gathered that the police have found that a sum of Rs 3.33 crore has been credited to Bashyar’s account from Korea.
More details are awaited.