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Ghaziabad, 23 August (HS). Police Commissionerate Ghaziabad Cyber Crime Police Station on Friday arrested a fraudster who used to cheat in the name of crypto trading. He has cheated people of Rs 1 crore 37 lakh in just four months. 02 mobile phones have been recovered from his possession.
ADCP Sachchidanand told that Sanjay Katiyar had lodged a case at Cyber Crime Police Station. In which it was alleged that the accused contacted on Facebook and chatting with WhatsApp number, told about a crypto currency trading website https://www.lsecbuy.com and assured to earn huge profits through crypto currency. By forming fake firms in an organized manner, opening current bank accounts in his name, obtaining SIM cards illegally, creating WhatsApp/Telegram IDs from the same SIM, chatting on WhatsApp/Telegram, creating fake crypto currency trading portals with the plaintiff and luring him and making fake crypto trading, a total fraud of Rs 1 crore 37 lakh was committed in various bank accounts. An amount was continuously shown in increasing order as profit on the website. More money was deposited to withdraw the increased profit. The accused is Manoj Rana, son of resident I-1761 Chittaranjan Park (CR Park), Police Station CR Park, New Delhi. The accused told that he had registered a firm in the name of Enterprises at I-1761 Chittaranjan Park South Delhi, Delhi-110019 for the work of recovery agent. When the business did not work out, he met Ashwani Arora, resident of Geeta Colony, Police Station Geeta Colony, East Delhi, through Tarun Dhawan, who used to work as an accountant. On his advice, the accused opened a current account in the name of Muster Enterprises in the Chittaranjan Park branch of PNB Bank on 20th and gave the linked mobile number, debit card, cheque book and user ID password of internet banking to Ashwani Arora through Tarun. He used to get 01 percent of the transactions done in this account. Transactions of about one crore rupees were done in this account in just 03 days.
By committing fake crypto trading cyber crime, this gang has committed cyber fraud worth more than Rs 5 crore in 250 incidents in 21 states.
In this case Pradeep Kumar, Sumit Kumar, Akif Farhan Khan alias Mannan and Amit Kakdiya Ranchhod have been arrested and sent to jail.
