Nov 29, 2024 06:14 AM IST
In-charge of the Cyber Police Station, Inspector Rajeev Tiwari, stated that investigations into the cyber fraud incident point out that the conmen had been working from Cambodia, Dubai, Pakistan, and different nations.
Cyber conmen based mostly in Cambodia tricked the accountant of UP cupboard minister Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi into transferring ₹2.08 crore to their financial institution accounts, police investigations have revealed. The financial institution accounts, registered beneath faux firm names, had been traced to branches in Kolkata and Siliguri.
Cambodia-based cyber conmen duped Nandi’s accountant of ₹2.08 crore
In-charge of the Cyber Police Station, Inspector Rajeev Tiwari, stated that investigations into the cyber fraud incident point out that the conmen had been working from Cambodia, Dubai, Pakistan, and different nations. There are clues suggesting that cyber conmen based mostly in Cambodia had been behind the current fraud dedicated with an accountant, he added.
The incident occurred on November 13 when Ritesh Srivastava, the accountant for Nandi’s agency, acquired a WhatsApp message from a quantity displaying the profile image of the corporate’s director and Nandi’s son, Abhishek Gupta. Believing it was a reliable request from the director, Srivastava shared the corporate’s account particulars. He was later requested to switch the cash to a few completely different financial institution accounts, allegedly for pressing enterprise offers.
On November 24, police arrested 5 cyber criminals and froze over ₹12 lakh that had been transferred to varied financial institution accounts. The suspects had been recognized as Divyanshu Singh (24) from Patna, Pulkit Dwivedi (20) from Mau, Sanjeev Kumar Rai (41), Surjeet Singh (28), and Vijay Kumar from Bareilly.
Investigations revealed that Divyanshu and Pulkit organized for the financial institution accounts used to obtain the stolen funds. They lured victims to share their account particulars with guarantees of excessive commissions for every transaction. The fraudsters used two financial institution accounts, registered beneath the names Globalisation Buying and selling Personal Restricted and Galaxy Electronics, to switch ₹1.48 crore. An extra ₹1.21 crore was funneled into 22 completely different financial institution accounts.
Cyber cops traced the preliminary message despatched to Srivastava to a name middle in Cambodia, from the place the native brokers transferred the stolen funds into varied accounts. Police officers confirmed that they’re figuring out the holders of those financial institution accounts. Moreover, round 100 extra financial institution accounts used for transferring the illicit funds shall be frozen.