The Crime Branch of Mumbai Police on Saturday arrested two persons for allegedly sending death threat emails to Reliance Industries chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani.
A 19-year-old man from Telangana was arrested for sending multiple death threat emails to Reliance Industries chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani. Another accused, identified as Shabad Khan (19), was arrested from Mumbai’s Gamdevi area later in the day.
The duo had demanded Rs 20 crore as ransom from Mukesh Ambani and then kept increasing the amount to Rs 400 crore in a series of threat emails.
Earlier, the VPN network used to send the emails was detected in Belgium.
A senior police officer privy to the development said, “We are interrogating the accused and he has been remanded to police custody. Primarily, it looks like mischief but we are questioning to know more details about the emails and network used by the accused”.
Mukesh Ambani, one of the richest businessmen in the world, has been receiving threat mails since October 27 (Friday) from a single email ID followed by Saturday and Monday. All threat emails made a ransom demand, the officials said.
In one of the threat mails, the accused had threatened that Ambani would be shot dead if he did not pay Rs 200 crore.