Gurugram police have arrested three men for allegedly supplying bank accounts to a cyber fraud syndicate that cheated people on the pretext of helicopter bookings for the Char Dham Yatra. The accused were identified as Ajit Kumar Shah (30), a resident of Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh, Pradum (30), a resident of Azamgarh district in Uttar Pradesh, and Vinay (40), a resident of Sultanpur district in Uttar Pradesh. They were arrested on Wednesday, and a case has been registered at the Cyber Police Station South.
Recovered items and modus operandi
Police recovered five mobile phones, five bank passbooks, 16 cheque books, and 18 ATM cards from the possession of the accused. During interrogation, it was found that each accused had updated the address on his Aadhaar card and opened more than 10 bank accounts across different banks. They allegedly supplied the cheque books, passbooks, ATM cards, and other banking documents linked to these accounts to cyber fraud syndicates in exchange for a commission of Rs 5,000 per bank account.
Involvement and network
Vinay allegedly told police that he became involved in the activity at the insistence of another person and later brought Ajit Kumar Shah and Pradum into the operation. During the investigation, police found three complaints registered on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal against the recovered bank accounts and mobile numbers. The accused are being interrogated in depth regarding their involvement in the present case and other cyber fraud cases, the identities of their associates, financial transactions carried out through the bank accounts, and the wider cyber fraud network.
Police statement
“The accused are being interrogated in depth regarding their involvement in the present case and other cyber fraud cases, the identities of their associates, financial transactions carried out through the bank accounts and the wider cyber fraud network. We are questioning the accused,” said Gaurav Fogat, ACP Cyber.
