Overview

• Delhi Police used CCTV analysis and GPS tracking of a Renault Triber to locate and arrest 52-year-old Fatemah Akbari from a Saket guest house on June 26.
• Investigators say the couple approached a 70-year-old US citizen at the IGI Airport on June 20 and swapped seven of his nine $100 bills for Rs 500 notes under the guise of showing them to their child.
• Akbari told officers that financial hardship drove her and her husband to target foreign nationals in areas such as Connaught Place, Khan Market and Lajpat Nagar using similar currency swap schemes.
• She faces charges under sections 318(4) and 3(5) of the BNS as police scrutinize the couple’s banking records for ties to other Delhi-NCR fraud cases.
• Authorities continue to search for Mojtaba Zolfaghari, who is believed to have orchestrated past currency swap scams across multiple jurisdictions.