Varanasi: Bhadohi Cyber Police busted a nationwide investment trading fraud racket and arrested two persons from Bankat village in Gyanpur police station area on Tuesday. Bhadohi Cyber Crime Police Station team arrest two members of the interstate cyber fraud gang operating through fake trading and investment platforms with a website named ‘FISD PRO’. Bhadohi SP Abhinav Tyagi said 100 NCRP (National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal) complaints are registered against the gang . Cyber police team got more than Rs 30 lakh frozen in various bank accounts associated with the gang. Special police teams are conducting raids to arrest other wanted accused. The two persons arrested are Mannu Singh and Omprakash Gautam, residents of Bhadohi district and five mobile phones, seven SIM cards, five ATM/debit cards of different banks, three passbooks and three chequebooks of different banks, two forged Aadhaar cards, one PAN card, two bank account opening forms, 43 Aadhaar update forms, one biometric thumb machine, two stamp pads, Rs. 2,750 cash and one Paytm QR card were recovered.More than 50 NCRP complaints have been registered against the bank accounts and cyber fraud network of the arrested cyber criminals from various states, including Kerala, Haryana, Delhi, Telangana and Bihar. Fake enterprise registration certificates were prepared in back dates and current and corporate accounts were opened in the names of fake firms in various banks, in which money gained from the fraud was deposited. They prepared fake documents with their photographs on Aadhaar cards of other persons and operated using forged SIMs, WhatsApp and Telegram accounts. One account in a private bank was found operating under the name of ‘Siddharth Enterprises’ (propreitor Omprakash Gautam), against which 28 NCRP complaints are registered. In six days, there were suspicious transactions of approximately Rs 77 lakh in this account. Cases are registered in Rohtas (Bihar) Cyber Crime Police Station under Section 318(4), 336(3), 338, 340, 61 BNS, Kaithal (Haryana) Cyber Crime Police Station in Mahadevapura, Bangalore (Karnataka) Cyber Crime Police Station. Another account was found operating in the name of the wanted accused’s firm, against which seven NCRP complaints are registered and dubious transactions of more than Rs 1.03 crore have taken place. A case was registered in Ghaziabad (UP) Cyber Crime Police Station. Mannu Singh used to operate fake accounts in collusion with bank officials and made net banking IDs and passwords available to other members of the gang. Singh and his wife Reema Singh are also accused of being involved in transactions and concealing/disposing of the ill-begotten money. In this case, ED has temporarily attached Bhadohi properties in the names of Mannu Singh and Reema Singh.Gang member Sumit Singh, who is absconding, was earlier branch manager of a private sector bank and was involved in a fraud of more than Rs 31 crore using accounts of the National Highways Authority of India. During search, jewellery and cash were also recovered and other accused including Mannu Singh were arrested. A case has been registered at Bhadohi Cyber Crime Police Station.
