7 held for duping people through Chinese gaming apps in Jhansi

Jhansi: Police on Tuesday arrested seven individuals aged between 22 and 26 for allegedly duping people through Chinese gaming apps and froze over Rs 4.25 crore in 19 bank accounts in which the accused had siphoned the money.Police also also seized eight mobile phones, sim cards, cheque book and ATM cards used in committing the fraud. In addition, the cops have also gathered the details of 114 mule bank accounts which were used in committing the fraud.The accused have been identified as Ragib Ahmed, Sunny Amarya, Sohail Khan, Anubhav Singh, Danish Khan, Saurabh Vishwakarma and Devesh Kumar Gautam.According to SSP Jhansi, BBGTS Murthy, all the seven accused belong to Jhansi, including three more, who are still absconding.He said that the gang had been operating a cyber fraud network luring people for cash returns on investment which were further transacted with the help of 114 mule accounts.He further informed that the mastermind, Dhruv, who operated from Indore used to handle the website and the gaming apps, while the another accused, Ragib, who used an Indonesian mobile sim card dealt in transferring the funds to these mule accounts while the other gang members used to lure people either to share their bank accounts or invest money.He added that police had also gathered details of illegal transactions in which money was allegedly converted into 37,966 US dollars and 22,081,308 Yuan.Police said that the accused used the mule accounts of people by offering them petty remunerations which the account holders accepted, without knowing the nature of the crime being committed.The accused deliberately got small amounts, less than Rs 500 invested since they are not reported under cyber fraud, Murthy said.