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The Cyber Crime Police, Hyderabad, person arrested 2 men from Gujarat successful transportation with a integer apprehension fraud successful which a pistillate was cheated of ₹1.95 crore aft being threatened with the apprehension of her husband.
The accused person been identified arsenic Saiyad Soyab Jahid Bhai and Belim Anas Rahim Bhai, some residents of Bhavnagar successful Gujarat.
Police said the duo played a cardinal relation successful facilitating the fraud by operating aggregate mule slope accounts to person and retreat the cheated money, which was aboriginal routed to cyber fraudsters based successful Dubai done hawala channels.
According to the police, the unfortunate approached the Cyber Crime Police connected December 13 aft receiving repeated calls from chartless persons impersonating officials from authorities and telecom departments. The callers falsely claimed that her hubby was progressive successful superior offences and warned of contiguous arrest, creating panic and fear.
The fraudsters allegedly made staged calls utilizing antithetic identities and convinced the unfortunate to transportation wealth connected the pretext of verification of currency serial numbers and completion of a alleged lawsuit enquiry process. Acting nether coercion, she transferred the full magnitude done RTGS from her slope accounts to accounts provided by the callers.
During the investigation, constabulary recovered that Saiyad Soyab Jahid Bhai assisted successful opening and managing mule slope accounts, facilitated currency withdrawals and received commissions connected the funds routed done those accounts. Belim Anas Rahim Bhai allegedly operated nether the directions of higher-level handlers and ensured the transportation of wealth to overseas fraudsters done hawala networks. Two mobile phones utilized successful the offence were seized from the accused.
Police said the slope accounts linked to the accused had been utilized for transactions moving into respective crores of rupees and were connected to aggregate cyber fraud complaints reported crossed antithetic States, indicating habitual engagement successful specified offences.
