PANSKURA: A businessman in East Midnapore’s Panskura has alleged he was duped of Rs 54.5 lakh by a US-based woman who asked him to supply “raw material for manufacture of a coronavirus vaccine”.
Ashish Sau met accused Maria Spencer on Facebook on April 6 and the two regularly chatted on WhatsApp thereafter. Sau said Spencer claimed she lived in a town called Scotland in the US and was the procurement manager of a pharmaceutical company. She told Sau he could earn a commission if he supplied raw material to the company. On her advice, Sau transferred money to accounts of three firms supposedly based in Mumbai and Rajasthan, but none sent him any raw material.
After the third transfer, Spencer stopped chatting with Sau and he found all her phones switched off.
East Midnapore SP Sunil Kumar Yadav said, “We have received a complaint and an investigation is on.”
Ashish Sau met accused Maria Spencer on Facebook on April 6 and the two regularly chatted on WhatsApp thereafter. Sau said Spencer claimed she lived in a town called Scotland in the US and was the procurement manager of a pharmaceutical company. She told Sau he could earn a commission if he supplied raw material to the company. On her advice, Sau transferred money to accounts of three firms supposedly based in Mumbai and Rajasthan, but none sent him any raw material.
After the third transfer, Spencer stopped chatting with Sau and he found all her phones switched off.
East Midnapore SP Sunil Kumar Yadav said, “We have received a complaint and an investigation is on.”
