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Harshvardhan Jain, a middle-passe man in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad, turned into arrested by the Noida Police on Tuesday for allegedly posing as a diplomat and working false ’embassies’ of fictitious ‘worldwide locations’ love “West Arctica”, “Saborga”, “Lodonia”, and “Poulvia”, from his rented residence in Kavi Nagar, about 35 km from nationwide capital Delhi.

Who is Harshvardhan Jain?

In an legit observation, Noida STF SSP Sushil Ghule, acknowledged the accused, Harshvardhan Jain, a resident of Kavi Nagar in Ghaziabad, turned into first arrested in lend a hand in 2011, when an unlawful satellite cell telephone turned into recovered from him and a case turned into registered in opposition to him at the Kavi Nagar police scrape.

At some level of his most up-to-date criminal urge, Jain had been impersonating ambassadors of multiple fictitious worldwide locations and lured folk with unsuitable promises of employment and connections abroad, the SSP acknowledged.

“The accused Harshvardhan Jain turned into working a false embassy from a rented residence, posing as an ambassador of multiple worldwide locations. Some autos were also seized, all bearing unauthorized diplomatic quantity plates. To e book folk and con them, he feeble morphed photos showing himself with prominent public figures,” Ghule acknowledged, in step with PTI.

The officer printed that Jain modus operandi turned into to exercise these false identities for brokering, claiming to offer abroad job placements, and running a hawala racket through shell companies. “He turned into arrested by the STF Noida crew,” he added.

The SSP extra acknowledged that four luxurious autos were seized by the law enforcement officials, all with diplomatic-style plates, and 18 more false diplomatic plates, 12 solid passports, fabricated seals of the Ministry of External Affairs, two false PAN playing cards, multiple international country seals, and two false press playing cards were recovered from him.

How Jain feeble solid identities to con folk?

Per Further Director Identical earlier of Police Amitabh Yash, Harshvardhan Jain turned into running a bogus embassy out of a rented property while projecting himself as a consul or ambassador of micronations equivalent to “West Arctica”, and non-existent worldwide locations love “Saborga”, “Poulvia”, and “Lodonia”.

“The accused turned into running the unreal embassy from a rented residence and projected himself as a consul or ambassador of these made-up worldwide locations and moved spherical in autos bearing false diplomatic quantity plates,” acknowledged Yash.

The senior officer added that Jain allegedly feeble morphed photos showing himself with prominent figures love the prime minister, the president, and a quantity of dignitaries to dupe and mislead folk and originate affect.

Jain, Yash acknowledged, turned into also beforehand associated with controversial godman Chandraswami and global hands dealer Adnan Khashoggi. In 2011, Jain had been booked for the restoration of an unlawful satellite cell telephone, also at Kavi Nagar police scrape.

After his arrest, STF crew seized four luxurious autos fitted with false diplomatic quantity plates, along with 12 solid diplomatic passports, solid PAN playing cards, and 34 rubber stamps belonging to tons of worldwide locations and inner most companies. Moreover, the law enforcement officials also recovered Rs 44.7 lakh in cash, international currencies echange, along with multiple solid diplomatic passports, and 18 false diplomatic quantity plates.

The false embassy operated by Jain also had “flags of these worldwide locations”, which were frequently hoisted on its premises to offer the impression of an right consulate, police acknowledged.

Particularly, some of the crucial worldwide locations Jain feeble for his con are valid areas but not identified by any nation. As an instance, “West Arctica” is a non-profit for climate motion and an unrecognised micronation in Antartica, while Lodonia is a micronation (a self-declared entity but not officially recognised as nation) in southern Sweden.

Nonetheless, a quantity of “worldwide locations” love Saborga and Poulvia  are fully fictitious entities.

An FIR has been registered in opposition to Jain at the native police scrape and extra complaints are underway, the police added.

(With PTI inputs)