A shocking case of fraud has taken place in Meerut. A 71-year-old retired bank employee was defrauded of Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 7.3 million) over money laundering threats. The accused digitally arrested the old man for four days and then deposited Rs 10,730,000 into his online account. After the victim realized that he had been deceived, he reported the crime to the Internet Police Station.
The case took place in the Civil Line police station area where Suraj Prakash, an elderly man living in Pandav Nagar, was cheated. He is a retired government bank employee. The victim has lodged a complaint with the Cyber Police Station, claiming that the criminals defrauded him of about Rs 10,730,000 by arresting him through numbers.
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Suraj Prakash, an elderly man, said the call came on September 17. The caller claims to be from the telecommunications department and says that all your registered mobile phone numbers have been shut down. An account has been opened with Canara Bank using your Aadhar card. Of this amount, Rs 6.8 billion was from money laundering activities.
Apart from this, the victim also stated that a call came from a WhatsApp number and the caller informed that a report had been lodged against him in Maharashtra. Additionally, he was threatened with being sent to jail. Leaving home is also prohibited. On September 18, Rs 380,000 was transferred into one of his bank accounts, and the second transfer was Rs 500,000. On September 20, Rs 90 lakh was transferred to one bank account, on September 21, Rs 45 lakh was transferred to another bank account and Rs 30 lakh was transferred to another bank account.
The police filed a case and started investigation
In this way, they were defrauded of 10 million rupees, 7.3 million rupees and 80,000 rupees in 4 days online. By the time he realized he had been deceived, it was too late. A complaint has been registered at Meerut Cyber Police Station on the complaint of Suraj Prakash. The police have taken action and written to banks to seize the bank accounts of those who were defrauded.
Regarding the matter, SSP Dr Vipin Tada said that a person came to the cyber police station and was told that a money laundering case had been registered against him in Maharashtra and asked him to transfer the money to an RBI account to save himself. Will. Under the influence, he transferred approximately Rs 1 Crore 73 Lakhs from his own account to the account of the accused. The defendant’s account was immediately frozen and two teams were set up by the Cyber Police Department.
