Two college dropouts From Gujarat amassed Rs 60 crore in three months by cheating people whom they had lured with the offer of money to carry out online tasks.The kingpin is believed to be holed up in London.
The arrested accused has been identified as Rupesh Pravikumar Thakkar (33) and Pankajbhai Govardhan Oad (34), both from Gujarat, and froze Rs 1.1 crore in a bank account maintained by them. The police scrutinised 32 bank accounts and found that there were transactions of Rs 60 crore and more in just two to three months.
Thirty-three debit and credit cards, 32 bank accounts all over India, six high-end mobile phones, 28 SIM cards, rubber stamps, fake agreements and various other documents have been recovered from them.
The police stumbled upon the scam while probing an online fraud case of Rs 2.45 lakh. The victims are spread across the country.
The police said that the money had been deposited by several gullible victims from across India.