An international cyber fraud racket has been busted by the Cyber Crime Cell of Punjab Police with the arrest of two Nigerian persons from Delhi. The members of this racket used to extort money from government officials and common people by putting DP and names of officials and VVIPs on their WhatsApp profiles. This information was given by Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav on Thursday.
He said that in the last few months, these fraudsters had duped many people by using the names of Cabinet Ministers, DGP of Punjab, Chief Secretary of Punjab and other IAS and IPS officers. The DGP said that these fraudsters used to send private messages mostly to government officials, demanding to send money through Amazon gift cards, Paytm or any other digital platform.
The role of some Indian people in this matter has also been exposed. The arrested persons have been identified as Aniok Hyginus Oakwoodley alias Poka and Franklin alias William. Both are residents of Lagos, Nigeria and are currently living in Delhi. The police also recovered a Canara Bank debit card, various gadgets, mobile phones, laptops, valuable watches and passport.
This is how cyber cell did the operation
Giving information about this operation, IG (Cybercrime) RK Jaiswal said that after a comprehensive hi-tech investigation and getting information from WhatsApp, the state cyber cell got some big leads. After this, three different police teams were formed and the financial, technical tasks of field work were entrusted to carry out the investigation and arrest of the culprits.
Under the supervision of DSP (Cybercrime) Samarpal Singh, the police team, consisting of two inspectors and other police personnel, was sent to Delhi. Police teams caught the accused Aniok alias Poka red-handed during a joint operation with Delhi Police when he was withdrawing money from an ATM located near Vikas Puri, New Delhi.
During interrogation Aniok alias Poka told that WhatsApp accounts were hacked from Nigeria and he used to withdraw money from ATM cards of unopened bank accounts in different parts of the country using fake documents and then the money was transferred to his kingpin Franklin. alias William, who further transferred the money electronically to Nigeria. After a long struggle, the police teams have also arrested Franklin.
First arrest in cyber fraud in India
IG RK Jaiswal said that the State Cyber Division of Punjab Police has made the first arrest in all India in connection with such fraud. Another sensational aspect in this regard is that Nigerians are also involved in this white-collar crime. The team of State Cyber Crime Cell was also conducting raids in many states and cities including Assam, Bihar, MP, Uttarakhand, UP, Jind and Alwar to control the accused.
Account of financial transactions found from 108 GB data
Giving information about the investigation of this case, DIG (Cybercrime) Nilambari Jagdale said that due to the recovery of about 108 GB data, information related to huge financial transactions of lakhs of rupees have come to the fore every day by the accused. He said that in this seizure, the information related to the screenshots of allegedly forged WhatsApp IDs and transactions worth crores of rupees has been sent for forensic analysis for drug linkage, hawala transactions and other investigations. .
The DIG said that during the investigation, first two bank accounts were identified, later the bank statements of suspicious bank accounts revealed that money was being sent from these bank accounts to four bank accounts and then to 11 bank accounts. A wide network was established by sending money. He further said that after breaking this network, it was discovered that money was being withdrawn from several ATMs in Vikas Puri, Ganesh Nagar, Tilak Nagar and Nangloi in New Delhi.
Expansion
An international cyber fraud racket has been busted by the Cyber Crime Cell of Punjab Police with the arrest of two Nigerian persons from Delhi. The members of this racket used to extort money from government officials and common people by putting DP and names of officials and VVIPs on their WhatsApp profiles. This information was given by Punjab DGP Gaurav Yadav on Thursday.
He said that in the last few months, these fraudsters had duped many people by using the names of Cabinet Ministers, DGP of Punjab, Chief Secretary of Punjab and other IAS and IPS officers. The DGP said that these fraudsters used to send private messages mostly to government officials, demanding to send money through Amazon gift cards, Paytm or any other digital platform.
The role of some Indian people in this matter has also been exposed. The arrested persons have been identified as Aniok Hyginus Oakwoodley alias Poka and Franklin alias William. Both are residents of Lagos, Nigeria and are currently living in Delhi. The police also recovered a Canara Bank debit card, various gadgets, mobile phones, laptops, valuable watches and passport.