In a recent fraud case, a Chennai-based Flipkart delivery agent was arrested by police on Sunday after he conned his employer for more than month, acquiring as many as 12 iPhones.
According to a report in the New Indian Express, the accused B Naveen, 21, was in-charge of delivery operations in the Washermenpet area, located in the Northern part of Chennai. The accused used a ‘clever strategy’ which involved placing orders to fake addresses in the area.
As soon as he received the package, he would take it back home and replace it with cheap China based imitations of the iPhone. Later, he would take those fake ones back to the company, claiming that unsatisfied customers had returned the devices.
However, after a month of carrying out his plan with utmost ease, his employer got suspicious about the abnormally high number of product returns from that that locality.
Subsequently, Flipkart carried out a probe and found out that the phones returned by Neevan were fake China duplicates.
He was arrested on Sunday by the Madhavaram police, after a complaint was file against him by the local warehouse owner Vetriselvam. He was later produced before a magistrate and remanded in judicial custody.
The police also said that Naveen is a first time offender and carried out this fraud to settle his previous debts. Further investigations by the police revealed that he had been doing this on the advice of an advocate.
The phones have been recovered by the police and the toal sum of the stolen handsets are valued well above Rs 5,00,000. The investigations also found out that he had lots of debts from his friends and other persons to have a lavish life during his college days.
