Twelve persons, mostly from Uttar Pradesh, were detained by the Adugodi police in southeast Bengaluru on Wednesday for running a “sophisticated cybercrime ring,” according to police authorities.
Sonu, 27, from Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, and Harshavardhan Ojha, 25, from Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, are the two main suspects.
While Sonu, a high school dropout who was originally from Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, worked as a labor contractor in Mumbai, Ojha, a BTech graduate, remained unemployed.
Akash Kumar Yadav, 23, Gorakhnath Yadav, 20, Sanjith Kumar, 25, Amith Yadav, 19, Gaurav Pratap Singh, 22, Brijesh Singh, 20, Raj Mishra, 21, Tushar Mishra, 22, and Gautam Shailesh, 25 are their members who were arrested. The others were from various sections of Uttar Pradesh, with the exception of Sanjith, who was from Bihar.
Investigators found an income and expenses ledger, 17 check books, 27 mobile phones, 22 bank passbooks, 400 SIM cards, 140 ATM cards, and Rs 15,000 in cash among them.
According to the police, a housewife was defrauded of Rs 5 lakh, and a complaint was filed at the Adugodi station on January 22.
A work-from-home opportunity was used to entice the 42-year-old victim from LR Nagar, who was then urged to send money to “fix her low credit score” so she could get paid for the position. The woman transferred the money in several transactions because she believed the scammers.
After starting their investigation, the police found that the bank account where the money had been sent had been created at Sonu’s request and sent a warning to the owner.
Investigators located Sonu at his Mumbai office on April 19. When questioned, Sonu acknowledged that he had used labor contract workers to create many bank accounts and that he had shipped the SIM cards, passbooks, and ATM cards to accomplices in Uttar Pradesh. The commission he earned for each bank account was Rs 1,500.
Subsequent research showed that commissions differed, with nationalized bank accounts selling for between Rs 18,000 and Rs 20,000.
On April 27, all of the accused were taken into custody and brought before an Uttar Pradesh municipal court.
After being taken to Bengaluru on transit remand the next day, they were questioned and brought before a local court, which remanded them to judicial custody. The inquiry was overseen by Inspector Ravi Kumar C of the Adugodi police.
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