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The ED squad was allegedly attacked by 1 Ashok Sharma and 5 others, including his household members and his servants. “The main accused fled and a hunt is connected for him,” a constabulary authoritative said. (Express Photo)
An Enforcement Directorate (ED) squad was attacked successful Delhi connected Thursday aft it arrived astatine a farmhouse successful the Bijwasan country arsenic portion of its probe into cybercrimes related to the UAE-based Pyypl app, constabulary officials said. An further manager of the cardinal bureau was injured successful the incident.
According to constabulary officials, the incidental occurred aboriginal connected Thursday erstwhile ED officials arrived astatine the farmhouse of a chartered accountant. The ED squad was allegedly attacked by 1 Ashok Sharma and 5 others, including his household members and his servants. “The main accused fled and a hunt is connected for him,” a constabulary authoritative said.
The ED has registered a First Information Report, officials revealed.
According to the ED, the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) and the Financial Intelligence Unit-India (FIU-IND) traced the wealth way successful a scope of cybercrimes similar phishing scams, QR codification cheating, part-time occupation scams etc to astir 15,000 mule accounts. “The debit and recognition cards of these accounts were past taken by the fraudsters and the wealth was transferred to top-up virtual accounts connected UAE-based Pyypl outgo aggregator. Then funds were utilized from Pyypl to bargain crypto-currency. The full web was being tally by shady chartered accountants,” an ED authoritative said. The ED’s High Intensity Unit is investigating respective apical chartered accountants arsenic portion of this case.
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