A gang of 12 people have been arrested by Navi Mumbai police for alleged cybercrime linked to a banned gaming app and collecting bank accounts for cyber fraudsters across the country. The accused collectively defrauded people of INR 84 crores.
As per officials, the first accused, who was arrested from Navi Mumbai, has been identified as Imran Shaikh (22). He would lure people in Navi Mumbai with money if they provided their bank account for a “government approved online gaming” app. An official said that the accused would make citizens open a bank account and take away the passbook, ATM and other documents from the banking kit to a place in Dombivali through an app.
The other accused were arrested from Thane and Pune.
On Thursday, November 7, the police revealed that based on the information received, a team raided the Dombivali place and discovered that five persons were involved in carrying out cyber fraud through prohibited gaming platforms. The police then arrested the five persons involved on October 14.
After further investigation of the arrested accused, it was found that other accused who were involved in online cyber fraud and prohibited online gaming were at Pune.
Following this, a raid was carried out there and six accused along with the materials for online fraud were arrested on October 16.
During the technical investigation of the laptops and mobiles of the arrested accused, it has been found that they have used 886 accounts of various banks for online banned gaming websites/applications like www.Ramesh247.com, http://www.upi9.Pro.com and http://www.Reddybook.blue for online cyber fraud.
An official added that the names of the accused had cropped up in 393 complaints filed on the national cybercrime reporting portal across the country, for carrying out crimes like share marketing ford, job racketeering, work from home fraud, etc in which nearly INR 84 crores belonging to people was fraudulently obtained.
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