​​​​​​​Cuttack, Jan 20: Cuttack Police arrested five fraudsters on Thursday for duping a senior citizen of Rs 88 lakh.

The gang duped of a few lakhs from the pensioner to provide him better healthcare while a sizeable amount was cheated through sextortion.

The accused have been identified as Manoj Kumar Jena (27), Prafulla Kumar Biswal (65), Sangram Jena (22) – residents of Pobala village under Dharmasala police station in Jajpur district – and Basudev Rout (25) and Manaranjan Routray (60), residents under Airfield police station in Bhubaneswar.

The Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Commissioner of Police, Dr. Suresh Dev Datta Singh stated the accused made a WhatsApp video call to the victim involving a ‘nude woman’ on the other end and secretly recorded it. They then repeatedly threatened to circulate the video on social media, forcing the victim to transfer large sums of money over time.

With the cunning trick, the sextortion gang duped of over Rs 88 lakh from the victim, the DCP added.