Kolkata: The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has busted an international cyber gang and arrested six criminals who were duping people in the name of sextortion and fake bank loans. During the investigation by Delhi Police, a money trail of around Rs 5 crores has been traced. According to the police, the network of this gang extended to UP, Delhi, and Rajasthan.
Police got clues from New Ashok Nagar, Delhi
On May 24, Delhi Police received important information that a fake bank account kit used in cyber fraud was about to be delivered in Ashok Nagar. After receiving this information, Delhi Police formed a team and raided Mayur Vihar Phase 1 and arrested three accused on the spot.
According to Delhi Police, the arrested accused include Gaurav Barua, Ujjwal Pandey and Yug Sharma. The Delhi Police Crime Branch has also recovered approximately 28 mobile phones, two laptops, 30 SIM cards, eight chequebooks, and 15 debit cards from the accused. Delhi Police said that with the help of these kits, the accused opened fake bank accounts and then used them in criminal activities like online fraud, loan scams and sextortion.
When Delhi Police strictly interrogated the three accused in this entire case, based on their information, the police raided the Mundka area where a fake call centre was running. Here, under the supervision of a person named Dilshad Ali, people were cheating the general public in the name of bank loans. The Delhi Police team caught 6 more people associated with this call centre. These people used to offer tempting loans to innocent people over the phone. Then they would ask for documents on WhatsApp and collect money by sending a QR code in the name of file processing fee. Later all contact would be cut off.
The accused were running a big network of sextortion
According to Delhi Police, the most dangerous aspect of this entire gang was sextortion, which was being run in Delhi. According to Delhi Police, the accused would first make friends through Facebook and then play obscene videos on WhatsApp call and do screen recordings.
After this, he used to extort lakhs of rupees from the victims by threatening to make the video viral. Police arrested Raees Zahid, Sohil, Jayshree and Jaiveer in this case. Jayshree used to work in a call centre earlier, and she got involved in this crime due to unemployment. Delhi Police said that the size of this gang is very large, hence, there could be more arrests in this case in the coming days.
