2 cyber fraudsters deceived a businessman out of 47 Lakh and got arrested
“A Cyber Fraud case came into the spotlight in which 2 fraudsters got apprehended for looting a business of 47 Lakh.”
2 scammers, one of them a government teacher from the Keonjhar district of Odisha, were captured by the Lucknow Cyber Crime Police team for defrauding a man out of Rs 47 lakh by posing as a CBI official and putting him under a fictitious digital house arrest.
Those arrested were identified as follows:
- Kumar Sahu (33), a govt teacher of class 12, and
- Ranjit Kumar Behera (27).
When businessman Ravindra Verma complained to the Lucknow Cyber Crime Police Station on June 23, the issue became widely known. He claimed to have received a call from a mysterious person posing as a CBI official.
What happened?
| a) The caller said that Verma’s mobile number and Aadhaar were being used for illicit purposes and that a formal complaint had been filed against him at Mumbai’s Andheri East Police Station.
b) On a WhatsApp video, the call was forwarded to a phony police officer who showed up in costume and charged Verma with money laundering and drug-related crimes. c) The victim was told to move 99% of his possessions to a “Supreme Court account” to avoid being arrested, and he had to hide himself in a locked room while being continuously captured on camera. d) Verma followed, thinking he was being legally pressured, and ultimately transferred Rs 47 lakh. |
How was the case solved?
| A combined team of the Cyber Crime Police and Cyber Cell, directed by Inspector Brijesh Kumar Yadav and supervised by the highest authorities of the Lucknow Commissionerate, used technical surveillance and intelligence inputs to track down the culprits.
The 2 individuals from Keonjhar, Odisha, were taken into jail on July 4 and taken to Lucknow for investigation. |
Additional DCP, Crime, Vasanth Kumar
| The scammers would target people at random, pretend that their identification was connected with serious crimes like drug trafficking or terrorism, and imitate CBI, ED, or police staff.
“Through WhatsApp or Skype video calls, they would frighten victims into compliance.”
To prevent detection, the 2 changed the stolen funds into USDT cryptocurrency. According to the officer, they registered their own cell phones and utilized business credit cards that were obtained under fake identities to access payment gateways and bank accounts. |
The arrested suspect admitted during interrogation that Rs 27 lakh from Verma had been transferred to a few accounts under Jayant Sahu’s control via an ICICI Bank corporate credit card.
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