Chandigarh: The Cyber cell UT police claimed on Tuesday, arrested another person in connection with the opening of fraudulent bank accounts.
The arrested defendant was identified as Ankit Jainan engineer and resident of Delhi. On August 11, the cyber cell had arrested four persons, including an assistant manager of a private bank.
Apart from Jain, the police have arrested Birender Yadav, a resident of Ramdarbar, Chandigarh, Devender Yadav and Shankar Suvan from Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh, and Avinash Kumar, a resident of Sector 22, Chandigarh.
The police also claimed to have seized 17 mobile phones, 37 bank cards, two laptops, 10 SIM cards, 14 cheque books and three postage stamps from the accused.
Ankit Jain also received a franchise from Mahadev Betting in 2023, police said.
During interrogation, the police found that Devender was the boss of the gang. All the accused allegedly targeted the lower working class, such as rehri drivers, autorickshaw drivers and other small traders. They allegedly lured these accused with offers to buy their bank accounts along with related equipment and SIM cards for a sum of Rs 10,000.
The seized bank accounts were then used by the accused for illegal activities such as betting and other cyber frauds. Police have so far uncovered 700 such accounts, of which about 100 are prima facie involved in cybercrime. TNN
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