Pramesh S Jain
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ollowing a 11 Crore cyber crime cheating case,the Northeast Division Cyber Crime Police busted an international racket and arrested a gang of three involved in digital arrest cyber crime racket .
The accused identified as Karan,Tarun Natani and Dhawal Shah were arrested from Allahabad and different parts of Gujrat while efforts are on to track down the kingpin who is operating from Dubai .
The accused according to the police targeted Vijay Kumar,a city based software engineer who had received shares of his company worth Rs.12 crore .
The accused posing as ED,Customs and police officials threatened with money laundering case and threatened to arrest him.
The accused on the pretext of inquiry “digitally arrested “him for one month before accessing his ID proofs and KYC and bank details .
They later shared nine bank accounts with Vijay Kumar asking him to transfer the money to their “official” account for verification,which the accused assured him to return after the process .
After the money transactions,the accused escaped and switched off their phones .
Based on the complaint,the police track down the accused through money trail and mobile call records to their locations in Allahabad and Surat in Gujrat.
The accused had shared the bank account of one of the jeweller from Surat from whom they had purchased the gold valuables worth Rs.7.5 crore .
The police questioned the jeweller from him they track down the accused who was working for the kingpin on commission basis .
The accused would arrange the mule accounts and SIM cards from different names to be used for the scam.
Karan one of the accused in the case,had even handed over many mule accounts and SIM cards to the accused personally in Dubai which are said to be used for scam committed in neighbouring countries,a senior officer said .
The trio said to be involved in similar scams as the SIM cards are used in different cases.They have been taken into custody for further investigations .
