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Pair gets 6 years for stealing $203K in gold bars from Castle Pines woman

A scamming duo was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment Friday for what prosecutors described as an “elaborate” scheme to dupe an older Castle Pines woman into purchasing and handing over about $203,000 worth of gold bars. Anil Dhiman, 35, and Punit Punit, 30, both Indian immigrants, were behind the fraud in which a caller who identified himself as an “agent” told the woman that her identity had been stolen and someone was using her financial information to write fraudulent checks to pornography websites, according to a news release from the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. The caller instructed her to open a new bank account, transfer hundreds of thousands of dollars into it and then use the funds to buy the gold bars from a store in Littleton. She was then instructed to hand over the precious metals to an “undercover agent” in the parking lot of a business in Castle Pines.

 

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