Friday, 04 March 2022 | PNS | Dehradun
The Uttarakhand police have arrested a man and a woman from Hyderabad on Thursday for the alleged cyber fraud of Rs five crore targeting Dehradun district residents. Both belong to Mohali in Chandigarh but were hiding in Hyderabad for the past four months as per the authorities.The joint team of Special Task Force (STF) and cyber crime cell nabbed the two accused- Satakshi Shubham and Kailash who were part of the gang that used to convince people to invest in their purported business ventures to get high returns. The senior superintendent of police (SSP) of STF Ajai Singh informed that a case was registered by a Vikasnagar resident Pravin Singh along with 11 complainants about this crime. According to the complainants, some people met them and presented themselves as the owners of several companies and convinced them to invest money in different investment schemes of their companies for three to five per cent profits, stated Singh. They were also asked to convince others to invest in order to get more profit. Singh said that the accused had created websites of several fake companies to dupe people into investing huge amounts of money. He said that the police checked all transactions and online interactions of victims and the gang members and collected other pieces of evidence during the investigation that revealed their location to be in a hotel in Hyderabad. Both accused who were hiding there for the past four months were arrested. The STF SSP further said that the accused revealed during the investigation that their gang works on a multi level marketing system as per which, they convince people to invest their money for high returns and then ask them to convince two more people to invest in order to earn more profits. He stated that both have also been involved in the production line work of some Hindi films as per their statement.Singh said that the accused have been brought to the state on transit remand. He also appealed to citizens to not proceed with any investments and online transactions without proper background check of the party concerned.
