Cybercrime gang operating from Jharkhand held in Wanaparthy

Hyderabad: The Rachakonda Cybercrime police arrested nine persons from Wanaparthy, belonging to an interstate gang from Dhanbad of Jharkhand who are allegedly involved in bank loan frauds here on Friday. The arrested persons are K.Raju, K.Santhosh, E.Ganesh, M.Venkatesh, K.Raju, D.Srinivasulu, K.Harilal, K.Ganesh and M.Ganesh. All are residents of Wanaparthy district. According to the police, the […]

Hyderabad: The Rachakonda Cybercrime police arrested nine persons from Wanaparthy, belonging to an interstate gang from Dhanbad of Jharkhand who are allegedly involved in bank loan frauds here on Friday.

The arrested persons are K.Raju, K.Santhosh, E.Ganesh, M.Venkatesh, K.Raju, D.Srinivasulu, K.Harilal, K.Ganesh and M.Ganesh. All are residents of Wanaparthy district.

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According to the police, the prime suspect in the case Vikram Thakur of Jharkhand had hired Raju’s auto-rickshaw when he came to Hyderabad and since then they became friends. Thakur informed that he was into online frauds and involved in calling strangers on pretext of providing loans and other banking services.

“He told Raju that while talking to people in the Telugu states, they faced issues with the language. Hence, he asked if Raju can arrange few Telugu speaking people to help them in committing online frauds. He assured 30 per cent commission on the amounts collected from the victims,” said an official.

Lured by the offer, Raju shared the idea with his cousins and friends, who accepted the offer. They left to Dhanbad in Jharkhand along with Vikram Rathod in January 2021, where they were taught about how to communicate with the prospective victims and duped them.

For this, Vikram procured several SIM cards, mobile phones and bank accounts on fictitious names to cheat the gullible people. Further he shared the contact details of various people who are in need of loans and other financial services from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

Then as per their plan, they contacted the victims posing as bank executives and fraudulently collected their bank credentials and cheated them in the guise of providing loans and siphoned money from their accounts.

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