Bagalkot police arrested a 47-year-old Nigerian citizen, Oliver Ugwu Okechukwu, for allegedly duping a woman from Ilkal town, Karnataka, of Rs 5.5 lakh with a false promise of marriage. Okechukwu, who resided in Mumbai’s Shivaji Nagar Bonkode Ganv, Khairane Thane, used matrimonial websites to contact women and create fake profiles. He befriended a divorced woman from Ilkal, introducing himself as Satya Amit, a London resident, and promised to marry her.
About a year and a half ago, Okechukwu called the woman claiming that customs officers at an airport had seized US dollars worth Rs 1 crore that he had brought into India. He requested Rs 5.5 lakh from her to recover the seized funds and provided a bank account number for the transfer. Trusting him, the woman transferred the money through RTGS. After receiving the money, Okechukwu stopped contacting her. The woman filed a complaint with the cybercrime police in Bagalkot.
The police investigation revealed that Okechukwu operated through fake names and multiple bank accounts. Authorities traced his location to Mumbai’s Uppar Khairana police limits via transaction tracking and CCTV footage. During the arrest, police seized four cellphones, a laptop, and a passport. Okechukwu was produced before the court and sent to judicial custody. The case highlights the increasing menace of marriage scams by foreign nationals exploiting matrimonial sites, with police working to track similar cases across India .
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