TEHRAN, Oct 30 (NNN-IRNA) – The Iranian police announced yesterday, they have arrested key members of a gang, who had swindled millions of dollars from people, on the pretext of sending them to study in foreign universities.
In an intelligence operation, Iranian police identified and arrested the swindlers, who used extensive social media advertising, to claim they could send students to Türkiye to study medicine, semi-official Mehr news agency quoted police spokesman, Mehdi Hajian, as saying.
The scammers deceitfully assured applicants that they would be admitted to Turkish universities, by sending them phony student identity cards and admission papers, via the internet, according to the Mehr news agency report.
The gang used the same scheme to defraud 200 people out of 6.25 million U.S. dollars, by charging each of them between 15,600 dollars and 31,000 dollars, said Hajian.
Five of the gang’s key members have been detained, and investigations are underway to find the remaining members, in cooperation with Interpol, he said.– NNN-IRNA
