Cops bust 30cr investment racket
Police said the accused had defrauded people across the country of over Rs 30 crore.
DCDD Bishop Sarkar said a retired railway official, living in Shibpur, received a WhatsApp call in May and was offered various enticing investment schemes. Falling for the trap, he invested Rs 39.2 lakh in three instalments into an account of a company, named Web Tech Investment Solution, supposedly headquartered in New Delhi. Subsequently, he stopped receiving any response from the WhatsApp number, and the account, where the money was transferred, became untraceable.
He then lodged a complaint with the cybercrime PS.
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A team, led by OC cybercrime Prosenjit Capri, launched a probe and arrested Kumar from Uttam Nagar in Delhi on Wednesday. Kumar told police around Rs 16 lakh, earned through the fraud, had been deposited in his account in a Delhi branch of a private bank. While a portion of the amount has already been diverted, police have frozen the rest and recovered Rs 3 lakh.
Kumar has been sent to police custody.
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