The Ahmedabad City Cyber Cell has found a direct link between Indian scamsters and cyber crooks from China in the cases in which top Gujarati businessmen and professionals were duped of crores of rupees by scamsters. Cyber sleuths are also chasing a massive money laundering racket in which money thus earned was transferred to offshore accounts in Hong Kong and Shanghai in China. The money transferred in the form of cryptocurrency is expected to be massive.
Earlier Mica president Shailendra Mehta was duped of Rs1.15 crore by one Moin Ingaria, a wanna-be doctor who ended up being a cybercrook, and Mustafa Neviwal who masterminded the racket.
Later a retired employee of Torrent Power Shrenik Vaishnav, 58, was duped of Rs40 lakh by the crooks. In the third case, the victim was Mineshkumar Engineer who runs a testing and certification business and was duped of Rs 2.10 crore. The most recent victim was a top Surat-based businessman Dakshesh Parekh, 58, who was cheated of Rs23.3o lakh.
In most of the cases, the victims were cheated after the crooks posed as customs and CBI officials or officers from other top agencies of India.
In the Surat case, the local police on Wednesday came down to Ahmedabad to take custody of Neviwala and Ingaria.