New Delhi, July 29
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as part of an ongoing Operation CHAKRA-III has taken action to successfully dismantle asophisticated cyber-enabled financial crime network that has been operating across multiple countries since 2022.
43 accused have been arrested in this case so far.
This operation was executed with cooperation from other international law enforcement agencies including FBI (USA) and INTERPOL, officials said.
International Operations Division of CBI had registered case in July for offences under Section 120B read with Sections 420, 467, 468, and 471 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 66D of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
The agency then conducted searches at seven locations across Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida. It was revealed that transnational cyber-enabled financial crimes in this network were being coordinated across distributed centers mainly directed from a Call Centre Operating from DLF Cyber City, Gurugram.
During these searches, live cyber criminal operations were intercepted and substantial incriminating evidence has been gathered. Investigation teams have so far recovered 130 computerhard disks, 65 mobile phones, 5 laptops, incriminating documents, financial transaction details, call recordings, victim details, and transcripts used for targeting victims.
The officials explained that the victims were contacted by impersonation and induced to click on Pop Ups for download of malicious software onto their systems and subsequently induced to make payments for restoration of their system. It is revealed that proceeds of crime were channelized from multiple countries to Hong Kong.
The CBI is coordinating with FBI and law enforcement agencies in multiple countries through INTERPOL for follow up on leads.
