Bhubaneswar, Jun 9 (PTI) The Crime Branch of Odisha Police has arrested three persons from New Delhi and Uttarakhand for their alleged involvement in two cases of cyber fraud involving a total of Rs 2.78 crore, officials said on Tuesday.
Two persons have been arrested in a case registered on the complaint of a Bhubaneswar resident who was allegedly cheated of Rs 1.38 crore by fraudsters impersonating as Mumbai cyber crime officers, they said.
The accused have been identified as Subham Sharma of New Delhi and Amit Kumar of Uttarakhand, officials said, adding that a woman and her son were arrested earlier from Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad in this case.
Police said that the accused told the victim that his Aadhaar number was linked to a money laundering
case and threatened him with arrest and imprisonment.
Acting under fear, the victim transferred Rs 1.38 crore to various bank accounts provided by the fraudsters, they said.
In another case, police arrested one Yasheen Shah from New Delhi in a Rs 1.4 crore investment fraud case.
A resident here had complained that fraudsters cheated him of the amount over a period of one and a half months on the false promise of high returns from investments in the share market.
“The complainant transferred the money to multiple accounts as per the fraudsters’ instructions. However, when he tried to withdraw the invested money, he realised he had been cheated,” said a police officer.
Earlier, 15 people were arrested in the case from different states. PTI BBM BBM NSD
