11 held for duping 60-yr-old man of Rs 8.5 lakh in investment fraud

“Some of the arrested accused provided their ain slope accounts, portion others purchased slope accounts from others by paying money. So far, the pack has provided astir 150 accounts to cyber criminals, earning crores successful commissions,” an serviceman added.

The accused were identified as  Gautam Gopal Das, Srinivasan Raju Rao, Omkar Yuvraj Thorat, Shrikant Balasaheb Salunkhe, Ojas Chaudhary, Akash Atmaram Dusane, Dinesh Hiraman Tayde, Mohammad Rajik Sadiq Patel, Sagar Dhiraj Kolhe, Harshal Prakash More and Amit Uttam Mitkar.

The 60-year-old antheral from South Mumbai was lured into downloading a fake app, done which helium was told to put successful the stock market promising precocious returns, constabulary said.

The South Mumbai nonmigratory transferred Rs 8.56 lakh done the app betwixt July 15 and 25, 2024.

“After the lawsuit was registered, we analysed the slope accounts successful which the wealth was deposited, pursuing which the suspects were identified arsenic Das and Rao. They were subsequently arrested connected December 12,” an researcher said.

Subsequently, the probe revealed the roles of 9 different accused, who were past arrested from Satara, Pune, Bhusawal, and Goa.

The constabulary person seized 5 laptops, 16 mobile phones, a Jaguar, and a Mahindra Mazzaro car from the arrested accused.

“We person besides learned that Dusane, Tayde, and Patel traveled to Cambodia and Nepal to conscionable the masterminds of the scam. They earned commissions successful crores with which they person bought costly cars and houses,” an serviceman said.

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