New Delhi, The CBI has arrested two more persons in a ₹ 11.42 crore “digital arrest” case in Gujarat after conducting coordinated searches at 22 locations across 10 states as part of its nationwide crackdown on cybercrime under Operation Chakra-VI, officials said Sunday.
In four such cases, the CBI said it has conducted coordinated searches at 142 locations across 22 states during the past 30 days and arrested 17 accused persons.
In the Gujarat case, the CBI alleged, that the victim was allegedly kept under “digital arrest” for three months by cybercriminals posing as police officers and officials of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, or TRAI.
The victim was allegedly coerced into transferring ₹ 11.42 crore to accounts controlled by the syndicate, the CBI spokesperson said.
Himanshu Prasad and Unis Biswas allegedly “used the bank account of M/s Hexaquest Global Pvt Ltd to receive ₹ 2.5 crore out of the ₹ 11.42 crore defrauded from the victim, and actively participated in transferring the funds onward to multiple accounts of their accomplices with the intent of obscuring the money trail”, a CBI spokesperson said in a statement. The agency said the Supreme Court, taking note of the scale of “digital arrest” crimes, directed the CBI to take concerted action against perpetrators and networks facilitating such offenses.
