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Ghaziabad, July 29 (HS). Cyber Crime Police Station on Monday arrested three youths in the case of cheating in the name of crypto trading. During interrogation of the three youths, the police revealed their involvement in 250 incidents in different states and cheating of Rs 5 crore. Police recovered three mobiles and Rs 8 lakh from their possession.
ADCP Sachchidanand said that the accused had cheated a person named Sanjay Katiyar by getting Rs 1 crore 37 lakh transferred to various accounts in the name of crypto trading between January 24 and April 25. Sanjay Katiyar had lodged an FIR at Cyber Crime Police Station on May 1. The accused contacted him through Facebook and chatted with WhatsApp number and told him about a crypto currency trading website and assured him of earning more profit from crypto currency. He said that the accused created fake firms in an organized manner and opened bank accounts in their name and obtained SIM cards illegally and created IDs on WhatsApp and Telegram. These people made fake crypto currency trading portals and got people to do crypto trading fraudulently. These accused got Sanjay Katiyar to transfer a total of Rs 1 crore 37 lakh to various bank accounts and committed fraud.
After investigating the matter, Cyber Crime Police Station arrested Pradeep Kumar, Sumit Kumar resident of Delhi and
Akif Farhan Khan alias Mannan, resident of Odisha, was arrested. ADCP said that accused Pradeep Kumar drives an e-rickshaw and Sumit Kumar used to run a charging center and used to make labor cards. Sumit and Pradeep together opened a bank account in Rohini and Sumit sold the account of this firm to Akif Farhan Khan alias Mannan, resident of Rourkela district Sundargarh Odisha. Akif Farhan Khan alias Mannan further sold this account to a person named Badal. In these fake accounts opened by them, commission was received in proportion to the money received from cyber fraud.
ADCP Sachchidanand said that Akif Farhan Khan alias Mannan came from Odisha to Noida in 2019-2020 to do a 1 year director's course at Sector 16 Film City Noida. After that Akif kept coming to Delhi, during that time he met a person named Badal from Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. Badal works in buying and selling bank accounts to cyber criminals. Members of this gang committed cyber fraud of Rs 10 lakh with Jitendra Vishwakarma of Cyber Crime Police Station area of Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh, Rs 1 crore 75 lakh 42,079 with Richa Verma resident of Gomti Nagar Extension Police Station area, Rs 20 lakh 44 thousand 400 with Saurabh Singh Patel resident of Alambagh Police Station area.