Uttarakhand: STF caught two cyber thugs from Dehradun in Myanmar connection
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STF has arrested two cyber fraudsters from Dehradun in connection with cyber fraud in Myanmar. Both the accused are residents of Udham Singh Nagar. These people used to open corporate bank accounts in India to receive the defrauded amount. After receiving the money in these, they used to transfer it abroad in the form of crypto currency. For this, they used to get one percent commission. The accused have so far deposited more than Rs 120 crore in Indian accounts. They have received a commission of about Rs 1.25 crore for this.
SSP STF Navneet Singh Bhullar said that this month the Government of India brought back 540 Indian citizens from Myanmar. Out of these, 22 citizens are from Uttarakhand. STF had formed a special team to investigate them. In this sequence, Myanmar connection in Uttarakhand was revealed through CBI and other investigating agencies. Investigation revealed that some people living in Uttarakhand are connected with cyber fraud happening in Myanmar and other countries. On this, two cases were registered in Dehradun Cyber Crime Police Station and Kumaon Cyber Crime Police Station on 20 March. Inspector NK Bhatt and Vipin Bahuguna’s team were deployed for investigation. Meanwhile, information was received that the location of two people was in Dehradun. This STF team stopped a car near the District Panchayat Chungi on Thano Marg. Harjinder Singh, a resident of Dineshpur in Udham Singh Nagar and Sandeep Singh, a resident of Arjunpur, were caught in this car.
A laptop, seven mobile phones, a passport, two cheque books, three debit cards, two PAN cards, a passbook and four SBI Bank corporate bank account forms stamped in the name of Shubham Enterprises were recovered from them. On the basis of interrogation of the accused, the SSP said that both of them knew each other for a long time. They came in contact with cyber criminals through Telegram. They used to open corporate bank accounts of people on their instructions. They used to keep their cheque books, passbooks, internet banking passwords etc. with themselves. These bank accounts were linked to the X Helper app. After this, the OTP link was sent to the number through the message forward app. In this way, the amount being defrauded in India and abroad was transferred to these accounts. They used to get one percent of the total deposited amount as commission in the form of USDT crypto currency through Trust Wallet. The USDT received as commission was sold cheaply through some crypto brokers present on Telegram and converted into Indian rupees.
25 lakh rupees withdrawn in March itself
The accused told during interrogation that till now they have deposited more than Rs 120 crore in these accounts. They have received about Rs 1.25 crore as per one percent of this. Out of this, the accused have withdrawn Rs 25 lakh from their accounts this month itself. According to the STF, there is still USDT worth lakhs of rupees deposited in the trust wallet of their mobile.
This is how they open accounts
These people tell their acquaintances that they are associated with a gaming app. Crores of rupees come from this app. But, this amount can come only in the current account. For this, they get firms made by their acquaintances. With the help of this firm, they get corporate current accounts opened in banks by taking all the documents. After this, their registered mobile number, cheque and passbook etc. are taken. STF has got information about 20 current accounts opened by the accused. These are also being investigated.
Sandeep is 10th pass, has given training in Malaysia
Among the accused, Sandeep is 10th pass, but he is an expert in opening such accounts. In such a situation, cyber criminals called him to Malaysia in June last year. There he had given training to some cyber criminals to open such accounts. SSP said that information about their hawala operators has also been received. Investigation is being done by including them in the cases.
