A businessman from Anand Vihar in Sector 32 was arrested on Friday in reference to a cybercrime case the place Rs 6.1 crore was siphoned off from a software program growth firm’s account. According to police, the defrauded quantity was transferred to 141 financial institution accounts and e-wallets utilizing a VPN service to evade IP detection. Harmeet Singh Malik, the alleged mastermind behind the crime, was detained by immigration officers at Mumbai airport when he was about to fly out to Dubai. Six accused have up to now been arrested.
In Dec, Kushal Singh, director of Witzeal Technologies Pvt Ltd, had filed a criticism alleging that Rs 6.14 crore had been fraudulently transferred from the corporate’s account between Dec 6 and 19, 2023. “Ours is a software development company which also operates in online gaming. We make transactions via online platform Razorpay. No SMS alert or email was received when the amount was debited from the company’s bank account,” the complainant alleged.
An FIR was then registered underneath sections 419 (dishonest by personation) and 420 (dishonest and dishonestly inducing supply of property) of the IPC on January 17. “The five arrested accused revealed that Harmeet Singh was the key player in the fraud. He operates from India as well as Dubai. We had issued a lookout circular (LOC) against him, and he was arrested at Mumbai airport on April 19 while leaving for Dubai. He is currently in police remand until Tuesday,” Siddhant Jain, DCP cybercrime, mentioned.
During the preliminary probe, it was discovered that Rs 10 lakh from the defrauded quantity was deposited within the ICICI checking account of UdaanpeInfoserve, a telecommunication firm in Sector 65. The agency’s CEO, Shantanu Anand, was then nabbed on Jan 25, and primarily based on his assertion, 4 others have been arrested.Â
According to studies, UdaanpeInfoserve’s then-chief know-how officer (CTO), Tarun Kumar Dudeja, Karthik Sharma and his brother Yash Sharma of Hari Nagar in Delhi, and Rakesh Sharma, an alleged hawala operator from Rajasthan’s Bikaner, have been subsequently arrested.
“From Udaanpe Infoserve’s account, the defrauded amount was transferred to other bank accounts. From there, it was converted to USDT cryptocurrency and transferred to crypto wallets in Dubai,” a cybercrime official mentioned. Karthik, a furnishings store proprietor, used to function Udaanpe’s checking account, and a debit card linked to the account has been recovered from his possession. Yash has been accused of changing the quantity to cryptocurrency and sending it to Dubai-based fraudsters.
Cops mentioned Rakesh is a hawala operator and was offering financial institution accounts to the Dubai-based suspect. They are searching for two extra accused, Mohit Malik and Ketan, who’re at present on the run.