EOW, ARRESTS ONE MORE FRAUDSTER IN ILLEGAL LOAN APP CASE
Bureau,Odishabarta
Bhubaneswar:EOW Odisha, arrested one more fraudster namely Tarun Dudeja (resident of Sector- 48,Gurgaon) from Bhubaneswar on 14.05.2022 in EOW PS Case No 9 dated 21.04.2022 u/s
294/506/507/420/467/468/120 IPC & 66 D of IT Act.
The arrestee will be produced before the Court of Hon’ble S.D.J.M, Bhubaneswar, today i.e. on 15.05.2022. In this case
earlier Director of one shell company “IWT” was arrested and cash of Rs 6.57 crore was frozen.Tarun dudeja is the director/ proprietor of following dubious/ shell companies.
DIGITAL BATUA
IPAISA ONLINE SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED
SWITZ INFOTECH PRIVATE LIMITED
BAZARPE INFOTECH PRIVATE LIMITED
Milanum enterprise
BACCHAT ONLINE
41 postpaid SIM cards in the name of various other persons were seized from him.
Healong with Javed Sahifi used to lure their employees/ interested/ vulnerable / poor
people to allow them to open bank accounts and take SIM cards using their name.
These accounts would be used to channelize the money collected through illegal loan APPs.
The
mobile/SIM numbers connected to these bank account would be actually handled by the fraudsters. All the related information/ call/ OTP would land on these mobile numbers which are handled by fraudsters not by the actual/official account holder.
This
mechanism is used to create extra layers to confuse/ distract law enforcement agencies/police. Generally they use 3-4 layers before money is landing at the mastermind’s Account. They disclosed that they pay around Rs one to two lakh to person concerned
for allowing the bank account/ SIM to be used as Mule Account.
The modus operandi of these illegal loan APPs has already been described in our previous Press Note dated 03.05.2022.
Advisory-
1. Please do not give your documents for opening of bank accounts to be operated by someone else and also don’t allow anybody to use your SIM to be used by someone
else. These things can be used for illegal purposes.
2. Please don’t surrender to abusive/ torturous method of recovery agents of these Loan App companies. Report the matter to local Police.
