pune the nigdi police have arrested two moneylenders on the charge of duping a private finance firm of rs278 lakh by mortgaging fake gold ornaments to secure a gold loan the duo and their accomplice had taken a loan from the firm in phases between march 2021 and march 2022 when they did not return the money the officials from the firm rechecked the gold ornaments and found them to be fake the managing director of the firm on friday filed a complaint against the trio subinspector natha kekan of the nigdi police said kekan said that the police with the help of cellphone location traced the duo santosh bagal 40 and sunil waghmare 47 at kiwale and arrested them we will soon arrest their third accomplice the subinspector said kekan said that according to the complainant the trio had mortgaged about 813g of gold ornaments with the firm when they did not contact the firm again to collect the items they were called but threatened to kill the complainant he then checked the ornaments and found that the trio had triple goldcoated the imitation items kekan said adding the probe so far revealed that the trio is in the moneylending business our investigation is on