Bhubaneswar: The investigation into cyber fraud by five persons arrested by Commissionerate Police in Bhubaneswar has revealed that their victims were spread across 24 states in the country.
Revealing this to media persons on Tuesday, Twin City Police Commissioner Sanjeeb Panda said the arrested persons revealed during questioning that they were involved in 313 fraud cases in those states. Those included 49 in Karnataka, 32 in Tamil Nadu and 38 in Telangana.
“All the five arrested persons were interrogated by senior police officers from 9 states for three days following their arrest. We are getting requests from other states also,” said Panda.
“We have listed 50 mule accounts from different states which are used for transfer of huge sums of money and have already frozen more than Rs 2 crore,” he added.
The arrested persons are Seikh Tajuddin and Muchumari Chitti Babu of Andhra Pradesh, Denzo alias Laleng Zauva Kaipeng and Jiten Kaipeng of Tripura and James alias Elvish Tara of Guwahati, Assam.
Odisha Fraud Case
The Commissionerate Police arrested them following investigation into a complaint filed by an officer of Odisha government serving in Bhubaneswar in Cyber police station on May 14.
The officer, in his complaint stated that he received a phone call from a person, who identified himself as an employee of Fedex courier service. The caller said the officer’s Aadhaar card was used in sending a packet to Taiwan and an officer of Crime Brnach, Mumbai would talk to him.
After some time, the officer received a call from another person, who identified himself as Machhumari Chintibabu, a Crime Branch officer from Mumbai. Machhumari told the officer that the latter would face criminal charges for using the Aadhaar card in the courier and demanded money to hush up the matter.
Out of fear for arrest and social stigma, the officer agreed to the deal and transferred Rs 36,34,400 online to the account of the so called Crime Branch officer. After making the payment, the officer realised that he had become a victim of cyber fraud and filed the complaint.
Following investigation, police arrested Denzo alias Boss of Tripura. During questioning, Denzo revealed the details about his accomplices and the police arrested the rest four persons on June 16.
