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Cyber Crime Branch of Gujarat Police has arrested 17 people including four Taiwanese. These people were looting lakhs of rupees by running a digital arrest racket across the country.
Ratan Gupta PTI, AhmedabadMon, 14 Oct 2024 12:37 PM share
Gujarat Police has informed that Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch has arrested 17 people. This also includes four citizens of Taiwan. All of them are accused of running a digital arrest racket across the country. A complaint was received last month. After this, people were arrested in Gujarat, Delhi, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Odisha and Maharashtra. Due to this, 17 accused were arrested. The four Taiwanese arrested are Mu Chi Sung, Chang Hu Yun, Wang Chun Wei and Shen Wei. Police estimate that these people have made around one thousand people victims of digital arrest.
This is how they commit fraud by making digital arrests.
Digital arrest is a cyber crime. In this, the people committing the fraud are assured that their investigation is going on. Some kind of allegation is made against them that they have committed a crime. In these, people are arrested digitally on the pretext of being involved in various businesses like money laundering, drug trafficking, sex racket etc. During this time, these thugs call themselves big officers of Cyber Crime, CBI or Police and keep a constant vigil through online mediums especially through video calls and gradually get lakhs and crores of rupees transferred to different accounts.
Kept digital arrest for 10 days, 80 lakh rupees were confiscated
This gang kept an old man under digital arrest for 10 days. Kept a constant eye on them through video calls. Meanwhile, they kept cheating him of money regarding RBI related issues. Looted about Rs 80 lakh from them. The victim later lodged a complaint that he received calls from some people claiming to be officials of TRAI, CBI and Cyber Crime Branch. He was told that his account was being used for illegal transactions. After this such a huge amount was transferred from him.
Used to invest money with the help of Taiwanese
Police said that all four Taiwanese had come to visit India last year. They met the captured gang. These Taiwanese were helping the gang members in transferring money. These people used to move this money from here to there with the help of mobile applications (apps) and other technologies. This app was created by these Taiwanese citizens only. These people had also linked online wallet to their system. With the help of this app, the money was converted into crypto currency from different accounts and sent to Dubai. After this these people used to get money through Hawala.
761 SIMs, 120 phones, 96 check books and 92 debit-credit cards were recovered.
Singhal said that this digital arrest racket was being run from call centres. These thugs had designed them like real offices of investigative agencies. It was from here that these people used to make video calls. Singhal said the police have recovered Rs 12.75 lakh in cash, 761 SIM cards, 120 mobile phones, 96 check books, 92 debit and credit cards and 42 bank passbooks related to the accounts taken on rent for conducting transactions.
