The anti-cybercrime team of the Crime Investigation Department (CID), Jharkhand, arrested seven agents of Chinese cyber fraud gangs from a hotel in the Jagannathpur area of Ranchi.
These agents were deceiving people across the country through digital arrest scams and fake investment schemes. The CID has registered a First Information Report (FIR) at the Cyber Police Station in this case.
Acting on a tip-off that a gang of cyber fraudsters was planning a scam in a hotel in Ranchi, the team from the Cyber Police Station conducted a raid and arrested seven members of the gang.
Investigations revealed that all of the accused were working for Chinese cyber criminals. They collected bank account details from across the country and passed them on to the Chinese gang.
They would send APK files via WhatsApp and Telegram to targeted individuals. These applications were installed on victims’ mobile phones, which had SIM cards linked to their bank accounts.
The application would forward OTPs and bank alerts directly to Chinese servers. Subsequently, the Chinese fraudsters would steal large sums of money by taking remote access to those accounts.
The arrested individuals have been identified as Kumar Deepak and Prabhat Kumar from Siwan in Bihar, Anil Kumar and Pradeep Kumar from Patna, Kumar Saurabh from Nalanda, Shivam Kumar from Nawada, and Lakhan Chaurasia from Sagar in Madhya Pradesh.
A total of 12 mobile phones, one SIM card, 14 ATM cards, and details of 60 mule bank accounts have been recovered from them.
According to the CID, over 68 cyber fraud complaints have been registered against this gang across the country.
All of the individuals were working for Chinese companies such as Monopay, Dragonpay, Superpay and Mangopay. Authorities have described the operation as a significant breakthrough against international cybercrime.
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