डिजिटल फ्रॉड के गेम में 200 करोड़ का लेनदेन, रिटायर्ड सरकारी अफसर निकला मास्टरमाइंड – Muzaffarpur Cyber Fraud Busted Retired Officer Son Arrested for 67 Lakh rupee Digital Arrest Scam rupee 200 Crore Transactions lcltm
A big and shocking case of cyber fraud has come to light in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Here, the police has exposed a gang that cheated people of Rs 67 lakh by giving fear of ‘digital arrest’. The mastermind of this gang turned out to be a retired statistics officer of Bihar government, who has been arrested along with his son.
The arrested accused have been identified as 60-year-old Priyaranjan Sharma and his son Anant Amish. Muzaffarpur police raided their house in Rajiv Nagar, Patna and arrested both of them. Cash, laptop, mobile phone, several bank passbooks, checkbooks and other suspicious documents have been recovered from the spot.
‘Digital arrest’ for 12 days
Investigation has revealed that the accused used to scare people of “digital arrest” by pretending to be officers of CBI, Police and Telecom Department. In a recent case, a retired bank employee of Qazi Mohammadpur police station area was threatened by calls for 12 days. The accused deceived that his Aadhaar card was used in terrorist activities. Fearing arrest, the victim had transferred Rs 67 lakh to different accounts.
Police investigation has made shocking revelations. Indications of suspicious transactions amounting to Rs 200 crore have been found in the bank accounts of the accused. The gang used to open accounts in the name of fake companies and NGOs and divert the defrauded amount in several layers, so as to avoid tracking.
The gang was active for a year
According to Cyber DSP Himanshu Kumar, this gang was active for the last one year and complaints have been registered against it in 28 states of the country. Cases are registered against them at many places including Mumbai Crime Branch. It is being told that this gang used to do transactions worth about Rs 4 crore in a day.
Let us tell you that after the FIR registered on April 9, the special team was formed on the instructions of the SSP. The team traced the location of the accused by analyzing call details, bank accounts and digital transactions and arrested them from Patna. At present the police is interrogating the accused and is searching for other people associated with this network.
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