Archive · 8 Dec 2025
Two Scammers Arrested in Delhi
Two men were caught by the Delhi Police for cheating people.
One man, Krishna Kumar Sharma, tricked people by saying he could help them with money exchange and meet Bollywood actors.
He and his team stayed in fancy hotels and took money from people.
The other man, Micheal Iga, pretended to be a woman on dating apps to make friends with men.
He then asked them to give him money for a fake business selling special oil.
Both men were caught after the police found out about their tricks.
They are in trouble for cheating many people.
Krishna Kumar Sharma, 31, was arrested in Delhi for running a pan-India forex and Bollywood scam.
Micheal Iga, 38, a Ugandan national, was arrested for cyber-fraud using fake dating profiles to scam people.
Sharma posed as a film industry professional to gain trust and cheat victims out of large sums of money.
Iga created multiple fake identities of women on dating and social media apps to manipulate and defraud victims.
Both scammers were arrested after extensive investigations and raids by the Delhi Police.
- Who
- Krishna Kumar Sharma and Micheal Iga
- What
- Arrested for running separate scams in Delhi
- When
- Krishna Kumar Sharma on December 6, 2023; Micheal Iga on December 8, 2023
- Where
- Krishna Kumar Sharma in Kiran Garden, Uttam Nagar, Delhi; Micheal Iga in Burari, Delhi
- Why
- Krishna Kumar Sharma for a pan-India forex and Bollywood scam; Micheal Iga for cyber-fraud using fake dating profiles
- Name 1
- Krishna Kumar Sharma
- Age 1
- 31
- Hometown 1
- Rishra, West Bengal
- Education 1
- BCom (Hons) from Calcutta University
- Company 1
- Ace Entertainment
- Arrest Location 1
- Kiran Garden, Uttam Nagar, Delhi
- Associate Arrested 1
- Saurabh (by Kolkata Police)
- Charges 1
- Sections 318(4), 319(2), 61(2) of BNS
- Name 2
- Micheal Iga
- Age 2
- 38
- Nationality 2
- Ugandan
- Arrest Location 2
- Burari, Delhi
- Arrest Date 2
- 8th December 2023
- Victim 2
- AIIMS researcher
- Amount Scammed 2
- ₹1.90 lakh
- Items Recovered 2
- ₹22,500 cash, four mobile phones, a laptop, and six debit cards
Sources
Lure of Bollywood, easy forex deal: How a Kolkata man conned people with a promise of making film deals
Fake dating profiles, a ‘rare oil’ pitch: How Ugandan man duped AIIMS doctor of Rs 1.90 lakh
