The Cyber Crime Police, CCS, DD, Hyderabad today arrested the following persons seven persons Amarjit Singh @ Varun (40) R/o Sitaphalmandi of Secunderabad (Main Operators at Hyderabad), Vasanthala Narendra @ Kalyan (37) R/o Musheerabad, Hyderabad N/o Bhimavaram, West Godavari Dist., Patel Mahendra Kumar @ Paresh @ Maheder (41) R/o Sikh village of Bowenpally, Secunderabad N/o Visol Gujarat. Tatipally Shanker (34) R/o West Marredpally, Secunderabad (Account Holder and Accounts procurer) Smt. G.Dayamani (44) D/o Prakash Rao R/o Flat No.G2, Chalukya Apartment of West Marredpally, Secunderabad (Account Holder) D.Chandra Sekhar @ Sekhar (37) R/o Sripuri Colony of East Marredpally, Secunderabad (Account Holder) E.Veerabhadra Rao (33) R/o Sai Ram Nagar of Secunderabad. (Account Holder) and recovered Rs.20.5 Lakhs Net Cash, 8 Cell Phones, 73 Debit Cards, from them.
They were arrested in a case lodged by Ms. Ms.Mrunalini Kulkarni D/o N.H.Kulkarni, R/o Ameerpet, Hyderabad, where in the accused persons along with their associates cheated the complainant to a tune of Rupees 13,17,000 on the name of winning a Lottery of Rupees 25 Lakhs in Airtel Company Draw.
This is a case of International Money Racket on the name of Winning Lottery being operated by the Pakistani Gang, using +92xxxxxx series mobile numbers, from Saudi Arabia, hand in glove with Indians residing in India. This is a case where in the accused cheated poor, innocent public of Hyderabad/other parts of India (Assam, Jammu & Kashmir, Chattisgarh, UP, etc.,) on the name of winning lottery. The accused persons (Ali Bhai & Harul) are native of Pakistan and residing at Saudi Arabia, who are cheating innocent public of India on the name of winning lottery.
Primarily the Pakistani Gang is gathering information of Bank account numbers through the accused Vasanthala Narendra @ Kalyan and Amarjit Singh @ Varun native of Hyderabad. The accused Kalyan with the help of other accused person Tatipally Shanker is gathering the Bank Account numbers of their relatives and friends on commission basis and passing on the information to the Pakistani Gang. After receiving Bank Account numbers, (Ali Bhai & Harul) starts calling the telephone numbers of poor innocent people of Hyderabad and other parts of India through Pakistani numbers 00923012985250, 00923030794621, 00923067506350 etc., They speak in pure Hindi language and very sweetly. They congratulate the person who receive their call saying that “ your mobile number is the Lucky winner of our Airtel Company draw and you have won Rs.25 lakhs and very soon you are going to receive your winners cheque“. They speak very politely and very heart fully and convince the receiver that they have won the lottery and they are really lucky person in the world. From the very next day they start extracting money from those persons, who got convinced by their calls on various pretexts viz., Customs Duty, Bank Clearance, Security Check, Income Tax etc. For depositing the money the Pakistani Gang provide Bank Account numbers of different cities of India, which they have collected from Indian counterparts. Believing their version that they have won the lottery and are going to get Rs.25 lakhs, the people start fulfilling the demand of the gang by depositing the amount in the given account numbers.
Once the amount is deposited in the accounts, Vasanthala Narendra & Amarjit Singh will withdraw the money from the accounts and after deducting their commission of 10%, as per the instructions of (Ali Bhai & Harul) hand over the amount to Paresh and Suraj. Paresh and Suraj will send the money to Delhi through Hawala Transaction. The money at Delhi will be received by agents of Ali Bhai and distributed to the concerned as per the directions of (Ali Bhai & Harul). The reason being the relatives of those local persons are residing at Saudi Arabia and are transferring the money to India through Pakistani Gang. The Pakistani Gang is collecting money from the Indians residing at Saudi Arabia to send the same either for free of cast or at a very low rate of commission. In this way the Pakistani Gang is cheating thousands of poor innocent public of Hyderabad/other parts of India on the name of winning lottery. Thus the Indian economy is falling in the hands of (Ali Bhai & Harul), who are the citizens of Pakistan.
Team lead by Inspector Majid Ali Khan along with staff cracked this case and apprehended the accused, under the supervision of DCP, DD, CCS, Hyderabad, and ACP Cyber Crimes, Dr. B. Anu Radha. (INN)