Raipur. Police has taken major action in the mule account case and arrested about 101 people. On the instructions of Raipur Range IG Amresh Mishra, in a joint operation of Cyber Range and Raipur Police, mule account holders have been caught from different places. Earlier, 98 accused have been arrested. Let us tell you that the police had recently registered an FIR against about 250 mule account holders. During the investigation, information about transactions worth about one and a half crores was found.
More than 200 police officers and employees were involved in this operation which went on for 30 hours continuously. 930 reports have been filed against the arrested accused in police stations of various states of the country, in which the accused have cheated the victims of Rs 1.57 crore. The amount of fraud of Rs 1.06 crore has been put on hold in the accounts of the accused.
Inspector General of Police Raipur Range Amresh Mishra had prepared a plan to investigate the mule bank accounts reported
More than 20 separate teams of more than 200 police officers/employees of Range Cyber Thana, Anti Crime and Cyber Unit and various police stations of Raipur were formed. The team traced and arrested the accused and after finding the mule bank account in someone else’s name and connecting with the accused through interrogation and technical evidence, a total of 101 accused including the promoter have been arrested. Fraud amount of about 1.06 crore has been put on hold in the accounts of the accused, which belong to victims of various states, who will be contacted and their money will be refunded.
Reports have been filed against the arrested accused in 930 cyber crime portals from police stations of various states of the country. Cases of murder, riot, gambling, NDPS Act etc. are also registered against some of the arrested accused in the past. The arrested accused used to provide bank accounts on rent basis and some people on the basis of 10 to 20 percent commission from the amount of fraud. Information is also being continuously obtained from the bank about such mule bank accounts in which large amounts or unusual transactions are taking place. During interrogation of the accused, names of many more people have come to light, who used these bank accounts for fraud. All the accused involved in the mule bank account case will be arrested. Extensive investigation is going on in the case.
Case is registered in these police stations
- In Case 1, Police Station Azad Chowk, Crime No. 78/25, Sections 317(2), 317(4), 317(5), 111 BNS, an FIR has been registered against 21 mule bank accounts of Indian Overseas Bank.
- In Case 2, Police Station Ganj, Crime No. 79/25, under Sections 317(2), 317(4), 317(5), 111 BNS, an FIR has been registered against 41 mule bank accounts of Karnataka Bank.
- In Case 3, Tikrapara Police Station, Crime No. 229/25, under sections 317(2), 317(4), 317(5), 111 BNS, an FIR has been lodged against 54 mule bank accounts of Ratnakar Bank.
- In Case 4, Kotwali Police Station, Crime No. 45/25, under sections 317(2), 317(4), 317(5), 111 BNS, an FIR has been lodged against 41 mule bank accounts of Kotak Mahindra Bank.
- In Case 5, Police Station Civil Lines, Crime No. 129/25, Sections 317(2), 317(4), 317(5), 111 BNS, an FIR was registered against 128 mule bank account of Bank of Maharashtra.
in the cyber crime portal and directed the range cyber police station for investigation and action. On this, more than 1100 mule bank accounts were investigated in the cyber crime portal. The crime was registered in Raipur Range’s police station Tikrapara, Civil Line, Ganj, Kotwali, Azad Chowk and handed over to the range cyber police station Raipur for further investigation. In the investigation proceedings, people using cyber crime portal reports, transactions in bank accounts, opening of bank accounts on the basis of multiple bank accounts of the same person and other technical evidence, digital arrest of account, share trading fake app, investment in crypto currency, Google review task, Telegram task, bank KYC update and Google search were identified in cyber crimes.
