Cyber thugs in Rajasthan held an elderly woman under digital detention for a week and then stole Rs 80 lakh from her account. For this, the accused used 150 bank accounts. Rajasthan’s Special Operation Group (SOG) has busted the entire fraud gang by making a digital arrest.
SOG has arrested 15 thugs of this gang. More than 13 lakh rupees in cash and other materials including debit cards, passbooks, bank accounts have been recovered from their possession. The miscreants of the gang, posing as Mumbai cyber crime officers, digitally arrested a woman on WhatsApp and duped her to collect huge amount of money.
SOG Additional Director General VK Singh said that an elderly woman has been digitally arrested while making WhatsApp video calls in Ajmer. He was also cyber-frauded from November 23 to November 30. Meanwhile, cyber thugs defrauded an elderly woman of Rs 80 lakh. After the case was registered in Ajmer, it was transferred to the Cyber Crime Police Station, SOG, Jaipur.
After this, a team led by Additional Superintendent of Police Mahesh Chaudhary was formed and a thorough investigation was conducted. In this regard, the first analysis of the money trail of the fraudulent money revealed that the money was transferred to 150 accounts. SOG officers then conducted a comprehensive analysis of all accounts and identified suspicious account holders. The investigation also revealed that the defrauded amount was being converted into USDT cryptocurrency by cyber fraudsters by withdrawing cash from various accounts.
In this whole case SOG arrested the accused Rakesh, Dilip, Samarth, Rajneesh, Ankit, Rahul, Manraj who had provided the bank accounts. Thereafter, accused Dilkhash used to collect account kits from these account holders and provided them to accused Sanjeet, Chain Singh, Sandeep. Accused Sanjeet and Chain Singh used to take the fraudulent amount in cash and give it to accused Tarun, Devendra Singh, Vinesh Kumar and Brij Kishore and converted it into USDT. The commission of the defrauded money is used by the cyber fraudsters to fulfill their expensive pursuits.
13 lakh rupees, 27 mobile phones, 43 debit cards, 19 pass books and check books of 15 different banks, 16 SIM cards, 13 PAN cards/Aadhaar cards, 1 laptop, 1 Swift VDI vehicle were recovered from the arrested accused. is The arrested cyber thugs are likely to be involved in several cyber fraud cases across the country, the SOG is investigating the matter.
