Omveer Singh was taken into custody by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on August 30, 2023, for the crime of money laundering through impersonation and deceiving several people.
Omveer Singh was the subject of FIRs filed by the Surat and Ahmedabad police accusing him of impersonation and fraud, which led to the opening of an ED probe. Omveer Singh defrauded one coal merchant out of Rs. 1.50 crore by falsely posing as a senior ED employee and promising to complete his tender work through his well-connected contacts. On another occasion, he impersonated the Financial Advisor and Auditor at the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, to swindle a Surat-based energy sector firm for more than Rs. 2 Crore.
The ED investigation found that Omveer Singh had meagre sources of income from his work as a construction site supervisor up until 2019. After that, he began to pose as senior government officials employed in various departments and began to entice numerous gullible people under the pretence of completing their work, defrauding them of millions of rupees. His method of operation is deceiving certain individuals in a city, and then he subsequently changes his address and identity to scam a new group of others. The revenues of crime from fraud and impersonation were used to enjoy an opulent lifestyle.
He was detained on August 30, 2023, by the ED after it was discovered that he was involved in money laundering. The custody of Omveer Singh was given to the ED until September 2 by the Honourable PMLA Court in Ahmedabad. Further research is now being conducted.
