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Canadian national arrested

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, MAY 20. A Canadian national, Thomas Stella (23) was arrested by the sleuths of Hyderabad Detective Department on Wednesday on the charge of cheating a Hyderabad-based Indian software company of more than Rs. 1 crore. Efforts were on to nab two other Canadian nationals, B.V. Alavi and her brother, Fazal Alavi, who were the prime accused in the cheating case.

The DCP-1 (DD), K. Narasimha Murthy, said that Ms. Alavi had lured an Indian company, G-Group, to invest more than Rs. 3 crores in her software outsourcing firm christened Optiserve Muskaan Services Ltd. One of the G-Group Directors, A.V.S. Sharma, lodged a complaint 10 days ago stating that Alavi's company was not paying the amount as per the agreement.

During investigation, it was revealed that Ms. Alavi, along with her brother, had allegedly flouted another fake firm with a similar name in Canada and transferred the money into that fake company's account. By the time, G-Group Directors found the alleged fraud, Ms. Alavi and brother had already left for Canada leaving Thomas as in-charge managing director at Hyderabad.

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