Police have arrested three persons who reportedly swindled a local of Dang out of Rs 5.58 million.

A team from the Metropolitan Police Crime Division, Kathmandu arrested Suman Lama, Rabi Thokar and Dinesh Basnet for the same charge.

One of the arrestees, according to police, had been in constant contact with Sujata KC Poudel of Lamahi Municipality in Dang through Facebook for the past year, giving his fake identification that he was a British citizen named Ian Smith.

During the conversation, Smith, on one occasion managed to get over her and lured her into sending the money in his name through banks, saying he had deposited $ 1.7 million into New Delhi branch of Bank of America in her name and that he needed some amount to clear tax under Indian law, police added.

The victim Poudel said she sent the amount on different dates through IME and other banks.

The arrestee used an Indian number to call Poudel for the purpose, police said.

However, upon finding out that she was cheated, she lodged a complaint with police. Acting on the complaint, police had arrested them from different places and on different dates. The arrestees have been sent to Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Range on Thursday for further investigation.

A permanent resident of Dhunibesi Municipality in Dhading, Lama was living in Lagankhel in Lalitpur while Thokar originally from Hetauda in Makawanpur was living in Lajimpat in Kathmandu. Likewise, Basnet is a resident of Dhobighat in Lalitpur. RSS