Rajasthan: SOG to question cyber criminals involved in huge cash fraud

JAIPUR: A team of Special Operations Group (SOG) will question the gang of cyber criminals who were arrested by Rajsamand police for defrauding a person of Rs 85 lakh. The same gang had also defrauded another person of Rs 2.5 crore in Bhilwara in the name of giving insurance for which a complaint had been registered at the cyber crime police station in Jaipur and is being investigated by the SOG. The accused hail from UP-NCR region. According to officials, the gang had been operating since 2014.
Rajsamand police had received the complaint on August 31 in which it was alleged that the gang had defrauded the complainant out of Rs 85 lakh over a period of three years from 2017 to 2020 following which the cops got into action and arrested the six accused. They were identified as Mohammad Javed (31), Ravi Kumar (32), Rahul Garg (33), Gaurav Bansal (31), Sanjay Chaudhary (31) and Sonu Baghel (27).

SP Rajsamand Bhuvan Bhushan Yadav said, “The accused presented themselves as IRDA officials as well as insurance agents. Few of them had previously worked as insurance agents and got the data of the potential targets from there. Javed was the mastermind behind the operation.”
The gang also duped a complainant in Bhilwara for around six years between 2014 and 2020 which is being investigated by SOG. While the complainant in Bhilwara was financially well off, the target in Rajsamand came from a humble background and took loan to pay for the fraud insurance.
Explaining the modus operandi of the gang, Yadav said, “They worked long-term and initially would even take out genuine insurance policies following which they would entice the victims by claiming that they would get them bonus returns and premature claims if the targets deposited money in the accounts given to them. As the accused had been in touch with the victims for a prolonged period of time, the victims had also started trusting them due to which they would deposit the money through cheques in the said accounts.”
Cops have seized the accounts as well as many Sim cards from the accused who are currently in police custody.