Kerala: YouTuber arrested for swindling cash by promoting pretend antiquities

By Express News Service

KOCHI: A YouTuber and chief of an expatriates’ affiliation was arrested on Sunday for allegedly swindling crores of rupees by promoting pretend antiquities.Monson Mavunkal was arrested from Kochi by the Crime Branch group which probing the case of swindling about Rs 4 crore from a number of individuals.

According to the investigation group, Monaon claimed that he obtained about Rs 26 crore from overseas for the gross sales of vintage supplies.

However, following some technical glitches, he couldn’t withdraw the quantity from his account. Citing this, he collected about Rs 4 crore from a number of individuals.

The fraud was operated by forging a doc within the identify of a overseas financial institution. The police investigation revealed that there was no account overseas in his identify.Monson had claimed that his treasured vintage assortment features a throne of Tipu Sultan. However, the crime department group discovered that these have been made by a carpenter primarily based in Cherthala within the Alappuzha district.

Following interrogation, Monson informed the police that he had bought the antiquities claiming that it was not the unique however a replica of it. The accused might be produced in courtroom later this afternoon, the police mentioned.The crime department sleuths carried out a raid at his residence at Kaloor in Kochi on Sunday morning.