Bhubaneswar, June 12 -- The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha Crime Branch has arrested a fraudster, Jitendra Mallick, from Bengaluru for allegedly collecting crores of rupees from lakhs of investors across the country.
EOW sources said on Thursday that Mallick was produced before the Designated Court under the OPID Act in Berhampur on June 9 and was taken on police remand.
He was arrested based on an FIR registered following a complaint from over 800 duped investors from the Ganjam district.
Allegedly, the complainants, along with lakhs of others across various states in India, were induced to invest in 18football.com with promises of high returns.
The investors were lured with promises of attractive benefits such as 3 percent...