Lakshya Vij arrested for cheating an American woman
ED has busted a very big fraud and arrested its main accused. Actually, a group of people contacted an American woman from India and convinced her to transfer her money to crypto currency. After this, their real game started and in a short time they cheated the woman of crores. Now after a lot of investigation, ED has found out the clever thief. The clever thief who is the main accused of this fraud is named Lakshya Vij. ED has arrested Lakshya Vij and the court has sent him to ED custody for 5 days. Let us tell you about this fraud in detail.
How did the woman get cheated?
A group of people contacted a woman from America and somehow convinced her to transfer the money she had invested in the bank to crypto currency because the existing account is not safe. After this, the caller took unauthorized remote access of the woman’s computer and created a crypto currency account in her name using her phone number and mail ID. After this, the woman was asked to transfer her 4 lakh US dollars to that account. Later, when the woman logged into the account, she found the account empty.
The woman filed a case
The woman was duped of a huge fraud in the name of crypto currency after which she filed a complaint. After this, the matter was reported to the Indian authorities. Based on this information, the CBI filed an FIR naming some of the accused.
ED started investigation
Based on the FIR filed by the CBI, the money laundering investigation was initiated. During the investigation, the Enforcement Directorate found that after withdrawing dollars from the American woman’s crypto currency account, bitcoins were sent to several wallets. To protect themselves during the investigation, these bitcoins were transferred to different people in several layers. After this, the fraudsters transferred the money from the crypto currency account to the bank accounts of several dummy entities. After this, after converting it into Indian currency, it was transferred to several other accounts.
main accused arrested
The Enforcement Directorate started investigating this case on 6 June 2024. During the investigation, ED found many digital evidence. Apart from this, ED took statements of many people whose wallets were used to transfer crypto currency under sections 17 and 50 of PMLA. The evidence submitted during the ED investigation revealed that Lakshya Vij was the person who used to give orders to transfer bitcoins to different people. For this, he used WhatsApp group. ED also got copies of this. Finding Lakshya Vij guilty of money laundering, ED arrested him from Delhi on 22 July 2024. At present, Lakshya Vij is in ED custody and further investigation is going on.
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