An official release on Friday stated that the cybercrime wing of the Tamil Nadu police had made a significant breakthrough by tracking down a kingpin in Bangladesh who was involved in the “FedEx” fraud.
However, the announcement made no mention of whether the authorities had managed to identify this kingpin.
This surfaced during the investigation of a case in which seven persons from Gujarat and Maharashtra were detained after a Chennai resident was defrauded of Rs 1.18 crore.
TN police discovered a network run by a kingpin in Dhaka, Bangladesh, who allegedly communicated with agents in India who conned individuals, based on their investigations and questioning of the apprehended accused.
According to the announcement, the accused conned the Chennai resident by pretending to be FedEx executives and cybercrime cops in order to trick the victim into sending huge quantities of money in August under the pretense of establishing the victim’s innocence in a fictitious criminal inquiry.
She was extorted Rs 1.18 crore using the tactic of claiming that a package under her name contained prohibited items and forwarding the call to a “cybercrime officer.”
She filed a report, and the cybercrime police started looking into it.
This resulted in the arrest of two cybercriminals, Vivek Beladiya Damajbhai and Paresh Narshibhai Kalsaria, as well as three accused, including Ramesh Bhadabhai, to whose account the fraudulent funds were sent.
Vipul Bhagubhai Kovadiya, who served as a go-between for the agents and the cybercriminals, was arrested after more investigation. He was from Darang in Bhuj, Gujarat.
Vipul disclosed that the primary face-to-face (F2F) agents in this case were two more agents from Maharashtra, who would have the primary accused’s contact information in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
These agents were later located in Kurduvadi, Maharashtra, by the Cyber Crime Wing. Two F2F agents, Shahrukh Ebrahim Shaikh (27), from Kurduvadi, Maharashtra, and Sahil Khudbuddin Attar (24), from Solapur, Maharashtra, have been taken into custody.
According to the police, Sahil allowed fraudulent transfers by installing an OTP APK file on the account holders’ phone.
The investigation revealed that the kingpin in Dhaka, Bangladesh, directed the network’s activities and used agents like Sahil to coordinate them. Sahil then interacted with account users face-to-face. According to the police, the investigation is still ongoing.
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