With at least three different names and a résumé that casts him as an affluent doctor and high-ranking Indian government official in search of love, Ramesh Swain made the perfect cocktail for many yearsYou can defraud hundreds of women and then pay for a life filled with pleasure and luxury.
An angry wife called from New Delhi to claim that her husband had left. Her husband was about marrying someone else.After asking for more $10,000, the police were notified in May 2020 by the police in Bhubaneswar in the eastern state Odisha.
“We started following his trail in May 2020,Every clue led to a new woman with the same story.”, tells Efe Sanjeev Satpathy, deputy commissioner of the Bhubaneswar police, after almost a year of investigations.
Last February 13The clues led to the exit from a temple. The car was surrounded with a special squad of police officers. The 60-year-old criminal, less that 1.60m tall and with a small mustache and dyed locks, scammed dozens upon dozens of women. He greets the agents from the back of his vehicle with a smile.
Their first wedding took place in 1978.The final three were nearing completion, with a fixed date of April or May. “He would look for ladies who were over 45 years old, well established and earning a good salary, then he would send them a text message, and after several days of writing and calling them, he would tell them that he would visit them, and then he would propose to them,” he said. The police chief.
His decision was to choose widows or divorcées.Indian society still sees this as a contemptible statusThese women are more at risk.
This is a picture of him riding in a white car with an orange sirenAs proof she was on official business, she was given traditional Indian Government business cards bearing the logo and letters from high-ranking officials. His initial intention was to obtain sexual pleasure. That’s your first goal.but soon after he tells them that the government blocked his accounts for different reasons, and he starts asking them for money,” he explained.
One teacher complained that Ramesh vanished months after her wedding and defrauded her family of more than $15,000 in jewelry and money.“He doesn’t stay with his wife for very long.”dice Satpathy.
Three of the phones were examined by a technical team. These conversations led to over 100 women being in an “official” relationship with each other.The doctor. Only twenty of them wanted to accept the marriage.
“But the exact number is almost impossible to know”According to the police chief, these women will be subject to social stigma if they are openly admitted to having been married by the scammer.
However, she was alone in her apartment after the wedding when her husband called and placed her first order. ”He told me that he had not been able to go to the airport because he was sickthat his bank accounts had been blocked, and that he needed money to pay at the hospital,” Rama, who prefers to use a pseudonym to protect his identity, told Efe.