Jharkhand CID busts cyber crime racket linked to Chinese scammers, seven arrested

The cyber crime branch of Jharkhand's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has busted a cyber crime racket operating in India from China and has arrested seven people for being associated with it.

The seven arrested used to function as the agents of the racket and used to supply information to the Chinese criminals. The accused were arrested from a hotel in Ranchi from where they used to operate.

They have been identified as Kumar Deepak, Kumar Saurabh, Prabhat Kumar, Lakhan Chaurasia, Shivam Kumar, Anil Kumar and Pradeep Kumar. All of them are either residents of Bihar or Madhya Pradesh. Twelve mobile phones, 11 SIM cards, 14 ATMs, a laptop and a cheque book have been recovered from them.

According to police, the racket used to rob people through fraudulent investment and digital arrest. The gang used to conduct illegal transactions on behalf of the Chinese gang by arranging mule bank accounts.

The cyber thugs based in China used to send an application to their agents in India via telegram, who in-turn used to get them installed on the mobile phones of customers having SIM cards linked with bank accounts.

Following installation, the application used to automatically transmit OTP and bank alerts to the Chinese server and grant the Chinese fraudsters remote access to the bank accounts. This would enable them to carry out cyber frauds worth crores.

The accounts on which fraudulent activities were carried out happen to be from different states across India. So far, the details of a total of 60 bank accounts have been received. A total of 68 complaints have been registered against this gang from various states across India.

The kingpin of the gang used to work for various Chinese companies, including Moon Pay, Dragon Pay, Super Pay, MangoIndia Pay. The fraudsters used to arrange mutual bank accounts and carried out illegal transactions in connivance with the Chinese thugs.

Huge details of bank accounts along with other digital evidence were recovered from the WhatsApp and Telegram chats of the accused.

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