Gurugram: Police took major action in cyber fraud cases and arrested 40 fraudsters involved in rupees 77 crore 38 lakh frauds through fake profiles and digital arrests. Police have recovered lakhs of rupees from the accused and further investigation is still going on as revealed by the Cyber Crime Coordination Center disclosed that 16,393 complaints across India have been exposed during the investigation on the basis of interrogation of 40 arrested cyber fraudsters caught in the last few months and data received from the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center.
ACP Cyber Crime Priyanshu Diwan while talking to media persons said that the Gurugram Cyber Police team had arrested 40 cyber ‘thugs’ from different places in the past, among them Ajay Kumar, Mohd. Anas, Jatin, Pranay Pratap, Riyaju, Rajveer, Praveen, Narendra, Mukesh Maru, Mohak Goswami, Vikas were arrested in April this year. While in May, this year Akash, Ravi Kumar, Praveen Rajendra Borkar, Kapil, Sumit, Prakash Chandra, Rajat, Vikas alias Vicky, Sunil Kumar alias Laxman, Deepak alias Monu, Tahir Naseem were arrested. In months June and July the arrested accused involved in cyber frauds were identified as Deepak, Randeep, Naveen Kumar, Deepanshu, Dheeraj, and Rahul, Surendra Singh alias Suraj, Mitesh Ramanlal, Ashok Kumar, Khushboo Kumari and Saurav.
ACP Priyanshu Diwan while addressing media said that Surjeet Dinkar, Bhumkanti Shiva Subramanyam Pradeep, Rachuri Krishna, Poopandi B, Shiva Shubramni, Yuvraj Ramraj, Nasiba Johar were arrested in August this year. Data of the six mobile phones recovered from them was extracted from the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center. Investigation revealed that a total of 16,393 complaints and 532 cases have been registered against the accused in connection with fraud of about Rs 77 crore 38 lakh across the country committed through fake internet media profiles, sextortion, investments and digital arrest by posing as fake police officers or CBI officers from whom amount worth over 85 lakh 43 thousand rupees were also recovered.
