The Uttara Kannada CEN police Friday arrested a former ‘cyber slave’ for continuing to prey on a 47-year-old businessman in Karnataka.

The arrested person has been identified as Shah Alam, 23, a native of Bihar, and he was arrested when he came to collect Rs 40 lakh from the victim at the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru . The accused has been sent to seven-day police custody.

According to a police officer, the victim, who is based in the Uttara Kannada district, came across a profile named Aishani on nikhaforever.com, a matrimonial portal exclusively for Muslims.

The officer further said, “Alam was then working in Cambodia as a cyber slave and was part of an eight-member team. Assuming Alam was Aishani, the victim befriended him on the portal in May. Between June 21 and

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