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Team of Police Station Cyber Crime arrested one accused in FIR No. 120 dated 10.12.2023, U/S 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B IPC, PS – Cyber Crime, Chandigarh, under supervision/direction of Sh. Ketan Bansal, IPS, SP/Cyber Crime, Chandigarh, close guidance of Sh. A Venkatesh, DANIPS, DSP/PS-CC& IT, UT, Chandigarh and leadership of Inspector Ranjit Singh, SHO, PS-Cyber Crime, Chandigarh.The accused identified as Sunny S/o Lt. Sukhbeer Singh, Vill Khurrampur, Murad Nagar, Ghaziabad, U.P., Age 26 Years.
Police said, the present case has been registered on the complaint of Mansoor Ali, Sector 3060, Sector
20/D Chandigarh, in which he mentioned that his wife was to visit New York (USA) from 17.11.2023 for
one month. They started looking for the apartment and on they found a website by the name of Zillow
Property, the same was recommend by a friend of mine.
The said accused Zillow property sent an email to his wife to fill application form for approval and his wife duly filled and submitted to the above said accused Zillow property. The said accused Zillow property had asked to deposit 100 dollar i.e. Rs.8350/- for processing the application and the same was deposited in the Paytm no. 9300010045 on the name of Tarun Kumar Sawant, the said paytm no. mobile was sent by the accused in the email dated 13.11.2023.(SUBHEAD)
The property no. given was 150E 57th St, New York, NY 10022. That thereafter his wife’s application
was approved and She was asked to deposit 500 dollar i.e. Rs.41604/-, which was duly deposited in the
same Paytm account as mentioned above, on 14.11.2023. Thereafter his wife was again asked to
deposit the remaining 500 dollar (Rs.41550/-) and the same was again deposited in the Paytm account
on Rs.41550/- . That his wife was given a location and a whats app no. 8032010761 and was again asked to send an amount of 300 dollar as a broker fee and she was asked to pay in the same Paytm Account and 300 dollar (Rs.24969/-) was paid in the same Paytm account on 16.11.2023. That his wife was again asked to send an amount of 200 dollar for the wifi charges, and his wife refused to pay the wifi charges as didn’t require wifi.
Thereafter his wife was asked to pay 200 dollar as security charges which llegedly would be refunded when his wife leaves the apartment and the same was again deposited in the Paytm account i.e. Rs. 16650/-. All the above said payment were made from his Paytm mobile no. 9814027371. That thereafter when his wife reached New York (USA) the concerned accused zillow property neither replied to his email and nor answered calls. As such so, the above mentioned have committed online fraud of total amount of Rs.133123/- as there was no apartment the address so given in the New York (USA).
During the course of investigation letter to Google was sent to obtain the information about the
alleged Gmail account and reply of the same has received, in which IP details of Nigeria are found.
Further, record from concerned banks also obtained and after scrutiny of bank record found that alleged
persons are operating the gang from Delhi, NCR, Chhattisgarh area Further, upon secret information
and on the basis of technical surveillance raid conducted on Delhi NCR area and on 17.12.2023 alleged
Sunny S/o Lt. Sukhbeer Singh, Vill Khurrampur, Murad Nagar, Ghaziabad, U.P., age 26 years arrested
from Basantpur Saintli road, PS Muradnagar, Ghaziabad area.
During interrogation he disclosed that he trades crypto currency on different crypto platforms. First he created account on Binance and started trading but he was not earning so much. After that he applied for merchant account and started trading in bulk. For every trading of 100 USDT he earned Rs. 300/400, he sold at least 1000 USDT daily. It's mandatory to take KYC of other person for every transaction but he never takes the KYC of the person from whom he purchase USDT. Further, investigation of the case is going on.
Master Mind & Modus Operandi: During the course of investigation found that person namely Atar Singh @ Abhishek Kushwaha who is the kingpin of this scam, he is the known of arrestee person Sunny. They manage the bank accounts in which cheated amount duped and circulated via Crypto Currency by using different crypto currency platforms. They trade in Crypto Currency on different platforms and they create merchant accounts on different platforms and trade in bulk. For every trading of 100 USDT they earned Rs. 300/400 , they sold huge USDT daily. It's mandatory to take KYC of other person for every transaction but they never takes the KYC of the person from whom they purchase USDT. Five accounts have been used by these fraudsters and transactions of cheated money.
RECOVERY: 1 Mobile Phone, Bank accounts kits 01
