This time, Goel is accused of misleading dozens of nut traders in what police say is a 200 million rupee fraud.
Goel, who ran a company called Dubai Dry fruit and Spices Hub with five other people, was arrested Sunday night near Meghdootam Park in sector 51.
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Immediate police recoveries include an Audi, 60kg of nuts and documents.
Goel was arrested Sunday night near Meghdootam Park.
The company operated in Corenthum, the main office complex in Sector 62, and paid a rent of Rs 3 lakh per month. Police said they had received at least 40 written complaints of fraud against him from merchants across the country in Punjab, Haryana, UP, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Delhi, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and some other states. Goel and at least four others ran the company. His employees included three foreigners, who ran the main office as receptionists, police said.
Additional CP (Law & Order) Love Kumar said that Goel and the others would gain the trust of merchants by ordering and paying on time and making partial payments in advance. “Later they would stop making payments and the checks written by them would bounce. Then the defendants would get bogus cases brought against merchants under CrPC 156 (3) by going to court, ”he said, adding that Goel and the others used mannequins as CEOs and other senior positions.
Kumar said that while they agreed to buy the dried fruit at slightly higher prices than usual from traders, they sold shipments on the open market at NCR for much higher, but did not fully pay those from whom they bought the stocks.
Police said Goel, Sumit Yadav, Praveen Singh Nirwan and Rajiv Kumar aka Mursafil Lashkar were running the company and that Om Prakash Jangid, who was arrested along with Goel, had been officially named the owner. Police said they would place orders for shipments of nuts from across the country and pay 40% via net banking. The rest was paid in checks, which bounced.
An FIR was first filed against the company on December 24 last year when a Rohit Mohan merchant, who has a business in Sector 65, filed a complaint.
Police said that while Goel was arrested for the Ringing Bells fraud in 2017, he subsequently formed a company under the name Master Freedom Company and offered a mobile phone for Rs 2,399 and an LED TV for Rs 9,900. This also created problems with the FIRs housed in Noida, Ghaziabad, Jalandhar, Panipat, Gorakhpur and Haldwani.
In 2018, Goel and Manoj Kadiyan formed a company by the name of Family Off Dry Foods India Pvt Ltd, which attracted an FIR in Bareilly. Together with Kadiyan and Pradeep Singh Nirwan, Goel formed Shri Shyam Tradings Dry Foods in Gurgaon. Later, another company was created by the name of Ayurvedic Commodities. An FIR was filed at the Sector 58 police station regarding this signature.
On Monday, Goel’s declaration of bail was heard in the Surajpur court even as the complainants gathered outside and raised slogans against him. Mohit was represented by several attorneys but was denied bail. “The defendant had tried to defend himself vigorously to obtain bail, but we objected on the basis of strong evidence and bail was denied,” said ACP Rajnish Kumar.
Mohit, an MBA, has his arrest suspended in at least three cases, including those involving Family Off Dry Foods India Pvt Ltd, Shri Shyam Tradings Dry Foods and Ayurvedic Commodities.
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