Mukesh Ambani receives death threat, email demands ₹200 crore

The second email from the same person landed on Saturday evening. This time, the sender increased his demand by 10 times, to ₹200 crore, since the billionaire industrialist did not respond to his first mail and threatened to “to sign his death warrant”, a police officer said

MUMBAI: Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has received two threat emails in the last 48 hours, prompting the Gamdevi police to register a case and begin efforts to trace the sender.

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In the first email to Ambani’s company email ID on Friday, one Shadab Khan said, “If you don’t give us ₹20 crore, we will kill you. We have the best shooters in India.”

Soon after, Devendra Munshiram, security in-charge at Antilia, the 27-storey south Mumbai residence of the Ambani family, filed a police complaint.

The second email from the same person landed on Saturday evening. This time, the sender increased his demand by 10 times, to ₹200 crore, since the billionaire industrialist did not respond to his first mail and threatened to “to sign his death warrant”, a police officer said.

The police officer said the accused used an email service provider from Europe and they had written to them to locate him through the internet protocol address.