Digital arrest game was going on in India from Cambodia, fraud of hundreds of crores from 5300 Indian SIM cards

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has started its biggest and most decisive action so far against cyber criminals and international fraud gangs that have spread across the country. A dangerous Malaysian gang, based in Cambodia and defrauding the innocent and innocent people of India, has been busted, which was carrying out online fraud worth hundreds of crores of rupees across the country and crimes like ‘digital arrest’ through about 5,300 Indian SIM cards. After the disclosure of this very sensitive and large international network, ED has registered a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and started cracking down on the criminals, which has created a stir in the banking and telecom sectors of the country.

ED raids from Rajasthan to Punjab, sensational disclosure of 30 secret bank accounts

To uproot the roots of this international cyber syndicate, different teams of ED had simultaneously conducted massive raids in many states of the country on June 5. The investigating agency carried out rigorous searches at a total of seven suspected locations in Ludhiana in Punjab as well as Kishangarh, Nagaur and Jodhpur in Rajasthan. During this extensive search operation, ED got many shocking clues, on the basis of which 30 domestic bank accounts active within the country have been identified. All these bank accounts were the main part of this mega-fraud network and were being used to launder crores of rupees defrauded from Cambodia to India.

Jodhpur Police’s FIR reveals the secret, SIM was activated in the name of innocent people and handed over to a Malaysian citizen.

This major investigation initiated by the ED is actually linked to an FIR (FIR) filed by the Jodhpur Police. Police investigation had revealed that some POS (Point of Sales) SIM sellers out of greed had fraudulently activated Indian SIM cards and handed them over to a Malaysian citizen sitting outside India. Most of the targets of these fraud gangs operating in Cambodia were Indian people, who were ‘digitally arrested’ through intimidation or on the pretext of fake investments and huge sums of money were collected from them.

After scanning the horoscope of 2.3 lakh suspicious numbers, Cambodia connection came to light, fraud was done through WhatsApp calls.

During the investigation, when the cyber experts of ED analyzed the data of about 2.3 lakh suspicious mobile numbers (SIM cards) in great detail, they were shocked. In this mega-analysis, it was clearly revealed that about 36 thousand of these Indian SIM cards were directly active on Cambodian soil. The most surprising thing is that about 5,300 of these SIM cards were such that the criminals used to make WhatsApp calls from Cambodia to the people of India and by pretending to be police or government officials, they were carrying out cyber fraud worth hundreds of crores of rupees across India.

Retailers of Jio, Airtel and Vodafone together created a maze, names of faces committing fraud came out

During the ED raid and interrogation, the names of the masterminds of this entire black business have also been revealed. Investigation revealed that the main accused named Rahul Kumar Jha, Mohammad Sharif and Sandeep Bhatt had hatched this dangerous conspiracy along with SIM sellers named Prakash Bhil, Ramavatar Rathi, Harish Malakar and Hemant Panwar. These SIM vendors had official POS IDs of the country’s big telecom operators like Airtel, Jio and Vodafone India. These accused used to target less educated, poor and simple villagers on the pretext of porting SIM card or issuing new SIM.

Misuse of biometrics and greed for huge commission, the whole game was like this

The working style of these vicious thugs was extremely shocking. When any innocent customer came to them to get his SIM ported or to get a new SIM, these accused used to take his fingerprint (biometric). On the pretext of activating the SIM, they would also secretly activate one or two additional SIM cards by misusing the documents and biometrics of the same customer. Customers were unaware that another SIM had been activated in their name. Later, these illegally activated SIM cards were sent to the Malaysian citizen in Cambodia through Rahul Kumar Jha and his associates in exchange of huge commission and money, from where this game of cyber war and fraud was being played against India.