Jodhpur News Desk: In Jodhpur district of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh Police has caught a gang that was cheating people by luring them with profits on Telegram app. The main leader of this gang is a youth from Jodhpur and he is cheating people through this app while sitting in Dubai. Many youths working for him are supporting him in transferring the defrauded money. When the people who were victims of this group’s fraud filed a case with the police, the Madhya Pradesh Police came to know that seven people associated with the gang were in Jodhpur, so the police came here and caught them.
119 fake accounts frozen
Along with them, some youths from Jaipur and Neemuch have also been caught. Also, 119 of their accounts have been frozen, in which transactions worth more than Rs 4 crore have been found in a month. It is estimated that there are 500 more such accounts. All accounts have been opened in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. According to the police, the main leader of the gang is Jodhpur resident Prakash Sharma.
Rs 11 lakh found with the accused
09 accused associated with this international gang who cheated people through Telegram app have been arrested from Jodhpur and Jaipur. Also, Rs 11.18 lakh in cash, 44 ATM cards of different banks, 10 chequebooks, 11 passbooks, 03 CPU, 01 laptop, 28 mobiles, 02 ATM swap machines, 08 SIM cards and ATM dispensers of different banks and cash were recovered from the possession of these accused. The deposit slip has been recovered.
Account opened in the name of business
According to Madhya Pradesh Police, Piyush Kumar had reported that about 2-3 months ago, my acquaintances Nikhil Rao and Shubham had come to my house. Nikhil Rao told me that my civil in the bank is bad and I am opening a new business. In which an account is required for the firm created by me. So that I can take small loans from the bank and do other transactions. Therefore, please open an account in the bank in my name and give me its passbook, ATM and the SIM of the mobile number linked to that account. After this, I have opened an account in the bank in my name. The kit received from the bank after opening an account in the Neemuch branch, which included ATM, passbook and the new SIM card I had taken for opening the account, was given to Nikhil and Shubham.
Used to give 25 thousand through fake accounts
Later it was revealed that illegal transactions had been done by Nikhil and Shubham in the account given by him. Due to which a hold/lien has been put on the account given by me by some agency. When I went to the bank to get information, I came to know that a fraudulent transaction of money had taken place in my account. After this, the police registered the case and formed a team for investigation. Just before Diwali, the team caught Jodhpur resident Manish Vishnoi and Jaipur resident Shubham Bhatt on suspicion and interrogated them and found out that Shubham Bhatt had arrested Neemuch resident Nikhil Rao, Gajraj Singh. And by luring other people with commission and some amount, they got bank accounts opened in their names in various banks. Whose bank kit, passbook, checkbook etc. and the seam of the mobile number registered in the account were being made available to Manish Vishnoi, a resident of Jodhpur, who works in the Forex Money Exchange located in Jodhpur. In return, Manish Vishnoi used to give Rs 25 thousand per bank account to Shubham Bhatt.
The accused used to exchange money from accounts
When the police interrogated Manish Vishnoi, he told that I and my other associates Vinod Vishnoi, Sundar alias Surend Vishnoi, Mukesh Vishnoi, Tarun Vyas, Bhupendra Singh, child molesters and other associates used to obtain fake bank accounts. In all the bank accounts, the money was deposited by the operator sitting abroad from the office of Forex Money Exchange through Telegram App by luring the people with the promise of giving more profits in less time. Which I and my colleagues used to deposit through ATM, Internet/Mobile. They used to take cash from banking and other online mediums and give it to Tarun Vyas and Bhupendra Singh for forex money exchange. Tarun and Bhupendra used to deposit the amount in small amounts in the fake accounts given by the operator through ATM cash dispenser.
