They work for power mafias involved in illegal casinos, drug trafficking, betting
Officials of the Ahmedabad City Cyber Cell arrested four Taiwan nationals for duping people by impersonating officers from law enforcement departments, including TRAI.
In a joint operation with the Delhi police, two Taiwan nation als-Mu Chi Sang alias Mark and Wang Chun Wei-were caught from Hotel Taj. They had come to India on October 10 while two others, Chang Hao Yun and Shen Wei Hao, were nabbed from Bengaluru.
According to ACP Hardik Makadiya of the city cyber cell, the four work for some power mafias involved in legal and illegal casino business, gaming, betting and drug trafficking in Southeast Asian countries, and hence they too are afraid to take their names.
“However, we have combined forces with other agencies and are trying to figure out the key operators of this international scam,” said ACP Makadiya.
The accused used to rent bank accounts from thousands in India in lieu of money. The accounts were hired from Surat, Vadodara, Ahmedabad and Limbdi in Saurashtra as well as from Rajasthan. The cyber cell has also come across The 4 accused in police custody
details that the mafias have their associates in Delhi, Visakhapatnam, Mumbai and Vadodara.
Sources said that the cyber cons used a completely new modus operandi in which they routed the mobile number to mails registered in some of the South Asian countries like Cambodia and gulf countries like Dubai so that they cannot be tracked. “On these mails, they route the OTPs to transfer money from the bank accounts to the accomplices who then transfer the amount into crypto currency and launder it foreign countries. The sys- tem which we have seized from them had 120 SIM cards attached to it,” added ACP Makadiya.
“These mafias previously operated from Fujian province in China. It had become like the Jamatara of India. But after a crackdown by the Chinese authorities, these mafias shifted to south-east Asian counstries,” the cyber cell official added.