Lucknow. Police have arrested two more cyber thugs in the case of cyber fraud of Rs 98 lakh by digitally arresting military officer Anuj Kumar Yadav, resident of Margupur, Ballia, who now lives in Varanasi Awas Bankar. Cheque, check book, ATM card, QR code were recovered from the thugs. Earlier nine cyber thugs were arrested in this case.
According to cyber crime station in-charge Vijay Narayan Mishra, retired Lieutenant Anuj Kumar Yadav lives in a built house in Madhav Nagar Colony of Sarnath police station area. In the complaint given to the police on December 4, he told that on November 11, he received a call on his mobile at 11 am. The caller told that his name has come up in Naresh Goyal money laundering case. A case has been registered against him. This case is being monitored by former Chief Justice Dhananjay Y Chandrachud himself. After this a person spoke posing as the former Chief Justice.
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A person posing as CBI Chief spoke several times through WhatsApp video calling. In order to remove his name from the case, on the pretext of checking the money held by the former army officer, cyber thugs had transferred Rs 98 lakh to their own accounts. The police team started investigating the bank accounts in which the money had gone. In these, Dinesh Kumar, resident of Jaunpur and Rakesh Chaudhary, resident of Garha Saini, were arrested. Both of them had also deposited money from the fraud they had committed with a former army officer into their bank accounts. The team that arrested the thugs included Inspector Vipin Kumar, Vijay Kumar Yadav, Dinanath Yadav, Sub Inspector Sanjeev Kannaujiya, Satish Singh, Shailendra Singh, Head Constable Shyam Lal Gupta, Alok Ranjan Singh.
During police interrogation, it was revealed that both of them had opened several fake bank accounts in the names of others and were operating them themselves. Fake Aadhaar was also used to open the account. He knew that when opening offline bank accounts in banks, documents like Aadhaar etc. are not scrutinized thoroughly. He used to tell the people in whose name the accounts were opened that he runs an NGO. NGO money will come into their bank accounts. In return they will get commission. Fraudsters also use fake Aadhaar to open bank accounts. By copying others’ Aadhaar through software, bank accounts are opened with fake name and address. To avoid police, they give address of another state and open account in another state. After the account is used for cyber fraud, it is stopped for a long time.
Police investigation revealed that cyber thugs invest the money in gaming apps and cryptocurrencies through thugs based in Vietnam. After this they get them several times. In this way his money and he himself does not fall into the hands of the police.
