Jodhpur : Police has got a big success in the case of cheating a retired government employee of Rs 1.84 crore by digitally arresting him and threatening to implicate him in a money laundering case. Banar police station has arrested the accused youth from Ahmedabad who was providing rental account. The accused youth had given his account on rent for Rs 1.5 lakh. Rs 75 lakh were deposited in his account. Apart from this, Banar police station has frozen Rs 47.34 lakh deposited in different accounts. The accused youth is associated with an interstate cyber fraud gang. The police are interrogating him about his other associates. 75 lakh rupees were transferred to the account
After the matter came to light, on the instructions of Police Commissioner Rajendra Singh and DCP (East) Alok Srivastava, a team was formed under the leadership of Banar Police Station Officer Premdan Ratnu under the supervision of ADCP (East) Virendra Singh Rathore and ACP (Mandore) Nagendra Kumar. Police detained Ahmedabad resident Patel Sagar alias Bharat Kumar (35), son of Bharatlal and interrogated him. In which he confessed that Rs 75 lakh had been deposited in his account fraudulently. After this the police arrested him and presented him in the court. From where he has been sent on remand. The accused youth is associated with an interstate cyber fraud gang.
Said to be an employee of Telecom Authority Company
Prabhat Nagar resident Naresh Kumar Bairwa had given the report at Banar police station on November 25. In this he told that an unknown person called him and introduced himself as an employee of the Telecom Authority Company. The fraudster issued a number from the Aadhaar card and told that a complaint of blackmailing had been registered and connected him with the Cyber Crime Branch of Mumbai and got him to talk to another fraudster. Who was described as a suspect in money laundering. Along with the arrest, he was also told that there was a threat to his life. During the digital arrest on 27, 28 and 29 November, the accused got the old man to transfer money through 11 checks to 10 accounts.
Deposited money in 10 different accounts
Banar police station officer Ratnu said that after defrauding Rs 1.84 crore through digital arrest, the fraudsters deposited the money in 10 different accounts. Out of this, Rs 75 lakh was deposited in the bank account of Patel Sagar in Ahmedabad. In return, the fraudster gave him a commission of Rs 1.50 lakh and usurped the remaining Rs 73.50 lakh. Police is investigating this matter.
