Two Held in Digital Arrest Case from Tamil Nadu & Kerala | Read

The Cyber Crime Unit of the Crime Branch arrested two persons from Tamil Nadu and Kerala for their involvement in a digital-related case.

The accused have been identified as Satish Kumar K from Chennai and Harish C M from Kozhikode.
This case was registered on the complaint of a Senior Scientist from Bhubaneswar. He stated in the complaint that on 9th August 2024, he received a call from an unknown mobile no. and the person on the other side claimed that he was from DHL Couriers.
He told him that using his name and Aadhar number, a parcel was sent to Japan containing 5 passports, 3 credit cards, 200 gm MDMA (drugs), 4 kg cloth, one laptop and Rs 35,000. It has been retained by the Customs Department which has sent it to the Narcotics Department for registration of FIR and he needs to talk to Mumbai Crime Branch urgently. Immediately after that, he received an international call about the same matter.
After a while, the call was shifted to a video call with a WhatsApp no., which was showing as Mumbai Crime Branch. In the video call, a person wearing a police dress was seen discussing with a DCP and telling thestaff to stop FIR against him as he is a Govt Officer.
He was made to believe that they had all the personal information about him. They told him not to disconnect the call till the investigation was over. They also shared names and photos of various Senior Officers who were investigated and issued NoC. They were issuing letters from CBI, RBI etc and telling him to read loudly.
They told him that there were serious allegations and found 4 illegal accounts opened using his Aadhar number at UP, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Bihar which were being used for money laundering during election time by Mr. Nawab Mallik and Dawood Ibrahim group. Hence, he cannot be out of surveillance till the investigation is over.
On 14th August at about 09.30 AM, they issued a letter that he has to deposit the money in the account of RBI controlled by the Mumbai Crime Branch. It will verify whether his account is linked to any illegal account and money will be returned in 23 minutes. So, they told him to go to the bank, keeping his mobile in his pocket. They sent an account no. and he transferred Rs 68 lakhs to that account which belonged to Satish Kumar from Chennai.
Thereafter, they told him to transfer money to another bank after some time so that the money would be reverted back to his account, hence, he did RTGS of Rs 8,82,000 Then they told him to return back withoutdiscussing it with anyone. Thereafter they showed him a letter saying that around Rs. 31 lakhs were used by money launderers for converting black money into white.
Finally, they told him to transfer another Rs.30 lakhs and then only they can issue NOC. In this way, the fraudsters duped him of Rs 1,06,82,000 (One Crore Six Lakhs and Eighty-Two Thousand) into three banks in three transactions between 9th -14th August 2024.
The Cyber Crime Unit of the Crime Branch, after reviewing the money trail identified that the majority of the money in this case had gone to two accounts which were located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and Kozhikode, Kerala. The Crime Branch team successfully identified the accused persons and the two teams proceeded to Chennai & Kerala and arrested these two accused persons who are the first layer account holders, wherein most of the amount cheated from the victim was transferred.
One of the accused persons Satish Kumar K was previously arrested in Chennai, Avadi Cyber Crime PS, Case No.299/2024 which was also of the same digital arrest Modus operandi and the fraud amount involved was Rs.1.9 Crore (approx.).
On verification in the NCR Portal, there are 22 other complaints against the bank’s current account of Satish Kumar K in different states throughout the country and 6 complaints against the current account of Haris C M.
The accused Satish Kumar K has been forwarded to the SDJM court in Bhubaneswar today and has been remanded to judicial custody. Haris C M is being brought on transit remand from Kerala and after reaching Odisha he will be produced today at SDJM Court, BBSR.
Previously in this case Crime Branch had arrested three accused persons from Hanumangarh of Rajasthan, Surat City of Gujarat and Kerala and they are still in judicial custody.

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