The Navi Mumbai police have arrested six persons, one of them claiming to be a freelance journalist, for allegedly looting Rs 25.32 lakh from a company employee last month, a senior official said on Thursday. Some of the accused posed as policemen to commit the crime, he said.

During interrogation of the accused, the police recovered Rs 15,18,500 out of the stolen booty, a car and a motorcycle from them, he said. Addressing a news conference, Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner Bipin Kumar Singh said the arrested accused included a former employee of a company, a driver, two estate agents and a freelance journalist who was also a police informer.