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News Topical, Digital Desk : The gang involved in IPL betting and banned online games was extremely clever. To avoid being caught, they would conduct IPL betting and transactions from moving cabs. Among the eight accused jailed on Monday, one is a lawyer and the other is a lawyer's son.
The lawyer's son had purchased two cars for this purpose and had them converted into cabs. Fifteen of the gang's accused have fled, and the phone numbers of two of them have been traced. Teams have reached Lucknow and Prayagraj to search for them. Transactions worth ₹100 crore are likely to have taken place in the accused's 150 bank accounts. Information on these transactions will be sought when the banks reopen.
Clone websites have been created to play banned online games like Lotus 365, Reddy Book, Karthikeya, Dubai EXH, and IPL betting. The mastermind, based in Dubai, has created these websites. He is recruiting thousands of members of his gang across all states and districts across the country.
The main member of this gang in the city is Mohit and the one who monitors him is Vimal from Lucknow. With the help of cyber and surveillance team, the police of Barra police station arrested Mohit's brother Abhishek Verma, resident of Barra Dharmendra Nagar, Hitesh Nigam, lawyer of Nehru Nagar, Satyam Tiwari, resident of Gujaini F Block, Anmol Vishwakarma of Barra 5, Nitin Gupta of Saket Nagar, Snehil Bajaj, resident of Baniya Bazaar of Cantt, Sultan Ahmed, resident of Hanspuram Awas Vikas, Naushad and sent them to jail on Monday, while 15 accused including Mohit and Vimal are absconding.
Barra police station in-charge Ravindra Kumar Srivastava said that the mastermind sitting in Dubai has allotted different branch codes of states and districts, the responsibility of which is given to the head person of that district and he and the employees working with him are given a salary ranging from Rs 50 thousand to Rs 1 lakh.
Kanpur's branch code is 24. Their job is to transfer the specified amount to the account of any person betting or winning a game. The mastermind then transfers the proceeds of cyber fraud to the accounts held by this gang. To avoid police detection, the gang transfers money to people in moving cabs.
The station in-charge stated that the process of freezing 52 lakh rupees in 52 accounts on 26 mobile phones of the arrested accused has been initiated, while the amount is likely to be up to 1 crore rupees. This will also be processed when the bank reopens. Due to the bank being closed on Tuesday, information about the recovered bank accounts and the accounts linked to the mobile app could not be obtained. Information is expected on Wednesday.
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