New Delhi: Police on Tuesday arrested an Indian-origin German national at IGI Airport for allegedly cheating a Delhi-based man of ₹ 60 lakh on the pretext of facilitating German citizenship.
Police have informed the Foreigners Registration Office (FRRO) and the ministry of external affairs about the arrest and legal proceedings. “After receiving the complaint, a case was lodged. The arrest follows an October 4 FIR filed against the arrested woman, her husband, and five others. They added that the incident incident occuured in 2023-24. The incident took place around 2023-24.
The woman, Poonam Jezler, is the president of the World Book of Records in Switzerland and her husband is a Swiss national, police said. Jezler claimed her father is a bureaucrat in Madhya Pradesh, according to police. A look-out circular was issued and Jezler was held at the IGI Airport,” said a police officer.
The suspects visited the victim and his family again, and later introduced them to a man who claimed to be a senior immigration officer with the German embassy, according to police. “They (the couple) even visited India, met my parents, and developed a close relationship with my family in order to gain our trust… In March, 2022, I joined as a financial auditor at a hotel in Zurich where they visited me under the guise of acting as my local guardians to win over my trust. They said they could easily get me German citizenship for ₹ 1.1 crore, within six months,” reads the FIR. Police said the victim was induced to pay ₹ 50 lakh into one account and ₹ 10 lakh to Jezler.
