Rachakonda: The accused Chota Bhai alias Deepu Mondal decided to cheat innocent people in the name of online crypto trading. As per his plan, he used various names of shell companies that never existed in real-time and fleeced money in the name of investments from victims, and later exchanged the amounts by purchasing cryptocurrency. The accused NurAlam Haque(23) who is a bank employee at Siliguri district west Bengal is a friend of Chotabhai alias Deepu Mondal. Chotabhai told his plan to NurAlam Haque of earning easy money fraudulently, and in the course, they both opened 64 different bank accounts and procured various SIM cards in the names of gullible illiterate villagers with the help of Ekram Hussain(23) and MD Ijarul(24) who helped in procuring the id credentials of the said villagers by offering them petty commissions, and collected their ATM Cards. Cheque Books and Internet Banking Credentials, and used them for crediting of the fraudulent amounts got transferred from the victims. In the course, the accused persons Chota Bhai and NurAlam Haque contacted the victims using various virtual numbers and lured them, and make them deposit money into their various accounts in the name “crypto investments”.
Once the money got credited into the said accounts, the accused used to purchase Cryptocurrency through an app called ZEBPAY. The accused have created the below-mentioned shell companies for cheating gullible victims: Bitzium Technology Pvt.Ltd., Cargo Solutions, Curved Har Productions, Harch Aran Enterprises, Quiko M Information Tec, Sky Destinations Trave, Intra Express Logistic, Fanigo Consultancy PRI 9. Mahadevi Enterpris, Fateh Textiles, Awlencan, Mdijarul from v13. Windberry and, Bisful Tec.While doing so the accused in the month of September contacted the complainant Mr. Bhanothu Kiran Kumar resident of Narapally through Whatsapp using virtual numbers and lured him to invest in crypto investments. Believing which first he invested Rs.2,50,000/-and got a profit of 10,000, later they convinced him to invest in huge amounts for getting huge profits and fleeced to a tune of 2.86 lakhs from him and thus cheated.
During the course of the investigation based on the technical evidence collected on 31.10.2021, the IO Mr. N. Ramu along with his team left for Islampur West Bengal. On 03.11.2021 traced and apprehend Md. Ijarul who is the crypto account holder (ZEBPAY) and then based on his inputs the IO and team went to Siliguri and apprehend Nuralamhaq & Ekram Hussain and took them to the local Matigara police station of Siliguri and after completing the legal formalities brought them to Hyderabad and produced before the Hon’ble court and sent to judicial remand. The accused were identified as Chota Bhai alias Deepu Mondal of West Bengal who is presently absconding, NurAlam Haque(23), Ekram Hussain(23), MD Ijarul(24) all from West Bengal. The Police seized 5 Mobile Phones, 6 SIM cards, 3 bank checkbooks, 6 ATM cards of different banks, and have frozen the amount of about 50 Lakhs in the accused’s bank accounts. The Police have issued a caution to the general public not to get lured by such online investment offers and get victimized by Cyber Criminals.
Under the direct supervision and leadership of Mr. Mahesh M Bhagwat, IPS, Commissioner of Police Rachakonda with the guidance of Mr. P. Yadagiri, DCP Crimes, Mr. S. Harinath, Asst. Commissioner of Police the case was investigated by Inspector Mr. N. Ramu of Cyber Crimes, proceeded to Siliguri of West Bengal State and apprehended the accused persons.
Our Citizen Reporter
B. Bharath Reddy
Telangana
