Faridabad : Faridabad Police has arrested 16 accused in connection with major cyber frauds suspected of having links to China. The scam involved defrauding people and converting the money into dollars with a total amount of Rs 7.59 crore. Police recovered 24 mobile phones, passbooks, 67cheque books, 556 SIM cards, 62 ATM cards and cash worth Rs 15,17,500. The police started investigation aftre registering a case on 29th March this year after daughter of a CA resident of Sector 15 Faridabad was cheated amount worth Rs 7.59 crore in the stock market and arrested accused from Faridabad, Bangluru, Jaipue, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Delhi, Ghaziasbad and Gurugram.
Rakesh Kumar Arya Police Commissioner has constituted an SIT led by ACP Cyber Crime Abhimanyu Goyal when as many as nine police teams of 40 policemen started investigation and raided several places for the arrest of accused. Investigation revealed that the fraudsters targeted local residents, collected money, converted it into dollars and sent it to China, earning substantial commissions. The cybercrime cell of the local police arrested 16 persons for cheating a victim of Rs 7.59 crore in the name of investing the money in the share market. According to sources, this is perhaps the highest amount defrauded in one single incident in the district so far.
ACP (cybercrime) Abhimanyu Goyal said the suspects were identified as Prashant Kumar (34), Saeed and Mohd Jishan (22), Saeed Suhail (32), Hari Kishan (27), Ram Singh alias Dhallu (37), Akash (27), Rohit (34), Mahendra alias Ritesh (26), Dinesh Kumar (26), Dipendra (31), Rinku (30), Indrajeet (36), Rahul (28), and Kailash and Dinesh Kumar (31). He said, while one suspect hails from Bengaluru, two are from Lucknow, three from Jaipur, one from Jodhpur, three from Bikaner, one from Dehradun, two from Delhi, one from Faridabad, one from Gurugram and one from Rohtak. The police had arrested Rahul on the basis of sources and technical assistance, and recovered his mobile phone used in the execution of the crime. The police then arrested the remaining suspects within a week. ACP said that the suspects had revealed that they sent a link to the victim, a local resident, on Facebook, luring her to invest in the share market and earning profits.
According to the complainant victim, after clicking on the link sent by the suspects she was led to a WhatsApp group named ‘ICICI IR TEAM (57)’. She told the police that she noticed that the investors had been earning huge profits, she opened an account with the initial investment of Rs one lakh. She claimed that the group members had been making money fraudulently and the amount had almost reached Rs 7.59 crore within three months. Among those arrested are Prashant Kumar from Bangalore, Sayeed Mohd. Jishan and Sayeed Suhail from Uttar Pradesh, Hari Kishan and Ram Singh from Rajasthan, and others from Delhi and Jodhpur. The police recovered a mobile phone used in the crime from one of the accused Rahul, leading to the arrest of Rinku, Inderjeet, and Kailash. Dinesh Kumar was arrested after interrogation and remanded to police custody for three days.
