Ahmedabad: Two salesmen cheated a retail fashion company of Rs 1 crore by redeeming vouchers with fake codes between July 2022 and March 2023. The duo work in Ahmedabad and Vadodara stores run by the company. Nayan Shah, 42, a resident of Iskcon Flowers flats in Bopal, works as the general manager with Apparel Group India Private Limited, which sells body wash, lotion, perfumes and soaps of Bath and Body Works, a retail store chain.
The company set up a store in Ahmedabad One mall on Sept 16, 2021. Another such store is located in Inorbit Mall on Alembic Road in the Gorwa area of Vadodara. Shah said in the FIR that the accused, Arpit Arora, worked as a sales associate with the Ahmedabad store, while Ujjawal Limbachia worked in the Vadodara mall.
Shah said the company entered a tie-up with VouchaGram, which provides digital gifting solutions. A customer can also buy the products of Bath and Body Works using VouchaGram’s gift vouchers. If a customer wants to use a voucher to buy the product, they will get a passcode on their mobile from VouchaGram, which can be provided at the checkout counter of the store to redeem the voucher.
Arora and Limbachia allegedly entered fake voucher numbers to bypass the passcode generation process and stole the money. They ended up taking Rs 1.06 crore from the retail company between July 2022 and March 2023, the audit for 2022-23 revealed, the complaint states.
Arora alone took Rs 1.02 crore and Limbachia took Rs 4 lakh. Shah said a complaint t.
