Police bust interstate gang of cybercriminals

Chandigarh, August 21

The Cyber Crime Division of the state police has busted an interstate gang involved in financial frauds with the arrest of three persons from different districts of West Bengal, said ADGP, Cyber Crime Division, V Neeraja here on Wednesday.

Those arrested were: Shovon Saha, Abishek Kumar Singh and Parveen Kumar Rai. Police teams also seized three mobile phones, one laptop and Rs 30,900 from their possession.

The authorities had reportedly received a complaint regarding Rs 49.60-lakh cyber fraud wherein the fraudster sent a WhatsApp message to the accountant of a company by using display picture of its owner, a Mohali-based realtor. The employee assumed the message to be from the company’s owner and transferred the money into the bank account given by the fraudster.