Summary:
Cyber crime sleuths nabbed two persons for their alleged involvement in a multi-crore online fraud complaint which has been registered in Bengaluru.
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A complaint filed in Bengaluru for an online fraud involving multi-crore rupees has led to the capture of two people by the crime branch.
The racketeers promised handsome returns over the investment of small amounts and collected money through mobile apps.
But the investor never received the promised amount.
Police detained Jay Parekh, 30 and his associate Vijay Vanzara, 35, and were handed over to Bengaluru police for further investigation.
“A Rs 120 crore online fraud complaint has been registered in Bengaluru.
During the investigation the name of Vanzara cropped up,” said Y A Gohil, assistant commissioner of police, cybercrime.
Police detained Vanzara and he revealed Parekh’s name.
Vanzara is an auto-rickshaw driver while Parekh is a travel agent and also sells products online.
“Bengaluru police traced Vanzara since the fraud money was deposited in bank accounts of Vanzara.
Actually, Parekh opened the accounts of Vanzara collecting his identity proofs and paid Rs 35,000,” said police.
The bank accounts were opened in March and over Rs 3 crore were deposited in the bank accounts.
“Similar complaints of Rs 250 crore in Uttarakhand and Rs 150 crore in New Delhi’s cyber crime cell have been registered recently.
The accused involved in all these complaints have almost similar modus operandi,” said police.
In these offenses, handsome returns were promised against investment of small amounts starting from Rs 500.