82-year-old man duped of Rs 7.12 crore in Ahmedabad for making videos

digital arrest scam Ahmedabad: The most shocking case of cyber crime has come to light in Ahmedabad so far. An 82-year-old retired professor was targeted by cyber thugs. The accused claimed to be superiors and threatened to implicate the elderly man in a false case of sending obscene videos to a celebrity. He was kept under 'digital arrest' for 20 consecutive days and Rs 7.12 crore was extorted from him. The Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch has arrested 12 accused in this high-profile case

videos and a game of fear in the name of money laundering

The incident began on December 4. The complainant professor received a call from an unknown number and the person identified himself as an official of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). The thug claimed that pornographic videos were sent to celebrities from Mumbai using the professor's Aadhaar card and a complaint has been lodged against him with the Mumbai Crime Branch. Hearing this, the old man was frightened.

Subsequently, a video call came from a number with the logo of the Mumbai Crime Branch. In which he was accused of his involvement in the Naresh Goyal money laundering case and illegal transactions of Rs 2 crore through the Canara Bank account

The terror of fake courts and digital arrests

accused crossed all limits to intimidate the elderly man. Fake letters with the logo of FIR, CBI, RBI, ED and Interpol were sent on WhatsApp. Not only this, an online fake court was set up, in which a person disguised as a judge staged a trial. The victim was threatened with arrest and custodial torture if she did not cooperate with the investigation. He was kept under house arrest (digital arrest) through continuous video calls on the pretext of investigation

RBI transferred 7.12 crore in the name of verification

fraudsters had obtained all the financial details of the old man. He was told that the money in his account would have to be sent to the RBI and ED for verification, which would be returned after the investigation was completed. Out of fear, the elderly man transferred a total of Rs 7.12 crore from his HDFC and SBI accounts to the accounts given by the accused between December 16 and December 26 through RTGS and cheques. When the money was not returned, he realised that he had been cheated.

12 accused caught: From rickshaw driver to graduate

Ahmedabad Cyber Crime has arrested a total of 12 accused (12 accused) from Ahmedabad and Surat on the basis of technical surveillance.

Shocking: Of the 12 arrested accused, 10 have not even completed their schooling, while only 2 accused are graduates

accused include rickshaw pullers, labour contractors and small traders who rented out their bank accounts on the pretext of commission

Cambodia connection and cryptocurrency

Police investigation has unearthed an international scam. The gang's wires are linked to Cambodia and Chinese cyber mafias. From the account in which the victim's money came, it was immediately converted to USDT (Crypto Currency) and sent to foreign handlers through Telegram channels. The police have found a network of 238 such 'Mule' bank accounts><

A plan fails due to the vigilance of Soni of Surat

Surat accused Rahul and Aniket had planned to buy gold by putting the fraudulent money in the account of a goldsmith. But Soni was suspicious of the money coming from an unknown account in Soni's account. He refused to hand over the gold and sent it back to the same account from which the money had come><

The arrested accused are: Dashrathbhai Nayak, Brijesh Shah, Hitendra Solanki, Vijaykumar Kori, Nayan Patel, Jaldeep Dakra, Rohan Patel, Sunil Dhamecha, Janakkumar Gadhadara, Rahul Mordia, Anil Mordia and Aniket Dhola<>