FOUR MORE ACCUSED INCLUDING A TAX CONSULTANT/ADVOCATE ARRESTED FROM DELHI NCR AND JODHPUR, RAJASTHAN ) NEXUS OF TAX CONSULTANT/ADVOCATE,CAS, BANKING OFFICIALS INVOLVED IN ROUTING ILLEGAL MONEY TO SHELL COMPANIES UNEARTHED
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Cyber Cell achieved major success with the arrest of a Chinese national who was overstaying the visa period and kingpin of an illegal instant loan app racket being run with a battery of 60 people under him. 20 more accused have been arrested in a marathon 10-day operation spanning across 5 States.
This breakthrough was achieved under the leadership of Sh. Ketan Bansal, SP, PS-Cyber Crime, UT, Chandigarh and under the close guidance of Sh. A Venkatesh, DSP/PS-CC & IT UT, Chandigarh and under the supervision of Insp. Ranjit Singh, SHO, PS Cyber Crime, Sec.17, Chandigarh by busting a racket of online APP LOAN fraud, in which 21 accused ( Including one Chinese) are arrested in the said cases.
In continuation of investigation of case FIR No. 33 dated 03.09.2022 U/S 384, 468, 471, 420, 509, 120B IPC PS- Cyber Crime, Chandigarh and FIR No. FIR No. 28 dated 30.08.2022 U/S 384, 419, 420, 120B IPC PS- Cyber Crime, Chandigarh found that arrested person were working on Online loan applications i.e. Hugo Loan, Coin Cash, AA Loan, AK Loan, Win Credit etc. and request to google has been sent to delete the alleged applications from play store and it also found that they are using virtual number for contact and we are trying to trace the origin of these virtual numbers as well as other suspects.
Accused were using social media applications i.e. Dingtalk, Wechat, GB Whatsapp and request to obtain the information about the social media accounts of accused are also sent to verify the IP details and other information about the suspects of the case.During the course of investigation of these accused it has also come in notice that they are taking benefits of GST also by multiple transactions in different shell/ fake companies accounts and we are also writing letter to concern department for further investigation on this aspects and suspicious role of some bank officials/ managers is also coming in this scam and we will also verify this factor. Total 25 accused (including Students, Advocate,Tax consultants, Directors of Firms) have been arrested .
Further, during the course of investigation of above said cases 4 more accused (1) Sunil Kumar Chauhan (Tax Consultant/Advocate)S/o Rumal Chauhan, # 81, Gali No. 1, Shyam Park Main, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad, UP. Age, 46 years (2) Abhishek Kumar( Student Pursuing LLB ) S/o Bhagwan Singh, # 102,Gali No. 2, West Kanti Nagar, East Delhi Age 30 Years (3) Shashikant Yadav S/o Hansraj Yadav,Plot No. 156, Khalroano 98, Ramdev Kiryana Store, Nandari Jodhpur, Rajasthan, Age 30 years (4) Ashok Kumar S/o Peera Ram, # 103, Jaton ka bass, Banar, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, Age 35 years arrested from Delhi NCR and Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
On analysing the money flow to different bank accounts/UPI IDs it emerged that all the cheated amount transferred in the fake bank accounts of shell/ fake companies managed by the above said accused and all the accounts managed by these accused are involved in Money Laundering and Hawal Karobar in all over India. ]
During the course of investigation of these accused it has also come in notice that they are taking benefits of GST also by multiple transactions in different shell/ fake companies accounts and we are also writing letter to concern department for further investigation on this aspects and suspicious role of some bank officials/ managers is also coming in this scam and we will also verify this factor.
Total 25 accused (including Students, Advocate,Tax consultants, Directors of Firms) have been arrested in above said cases and 22 accused have been sent to judicial custody and three accused (1) Sunil Kumar Chauhan S/o Rumal Chauhan, # 81, Gali No. 1, Shyam Park Main, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad, UP. Age, 46 years (2) Shashikant Yadav S/o Hansraj Yadav, , Plot No. 156, Khalroano 98, Ramdev Kiryana Store, Nandari Jodhpur, Rajasthan, Age 30 years (3) Ashok Kumar S/o Peera Ram, # 103, Jaton ka bass, Banar, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, Age 35 years arrested from Delhi NCR and Jodhpur, Rajasthan are in police custody till 26th September. Police teams are raiding various places all over India to nab the other co-accused.