The police announced on Saturday that two people had been arrested in the Indian state of West Bengal on suspicion of using chemicals to double their money as an excuse to deceive people.
The two unidentified suspects were arrested on Friday in the 24 Parganas district of South West Bengal. The police recovered 400,000 rupees (approximately US$5,300) of unaccounted cash from them after they were arrested. NDTV Report.
The police are still looking for a third suspect suspected of participating in the racket. The third suspect was also not named in the report.
The Basanti Police Department took action against a complaint made by Asit Halder, a resident of the Gosaba area. He allegedly lost 600,000 rupees (approximately US$8,000) after the fraudster claimed that his money could be doubled overnight after a chemical was mixed with cash.
Halder was lured by three suspects to a house in the Jyotishpur area of the area. He brought 600,000 rupees in cash and was told to put the money in a container and in a room.
Halder was then instructed to take a chemical from another room and pour it into a container for money.
After doing so, he was told to take the container home and open it a day later.
According to a senior official of the Basanti Police Department, the man opened the container the next day, but only found a few bundles of white paper, not money.
The police officer explained the racket’s modus operandi: “When Halder went to another room to pick up the chemicals, the defendant had taken the money out of the container and put several bundles of white paper in it.”
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