ED team attacked in Delhi during a raid at a CA's residence
One additional director of ED was injured in the incident : ED
New Delhi, November 28
The Enforcement Directorate (ED team was allegedly attacked when they had reportedly gone to a farmhouse in Delhi's Bijwasan to raid a chartered accountant (CA) in connection with its probe into a cyber app fraud case.
The officials informed that the ED team was allegedly attacked by the suspect, identified as Ashok Sharma, and his family.
The officials added that five people were there and one of them ran away. The premises are secured and an FIR is being filed. One additional director of ED was injured in the incident.
The ED said that the raids, launched by its High-Intensity Unit (HIU), followed an investigation that uncovered the laundering of illicit funds generated from thousands of cybercrimes, including phishing scams, QR code fraud, and part-time job scams.
The Enforcement Directorate’s High-Intensity Unit (HIU) launched extensive searches targeting top chartered accountants allegedly linked to a massive cybercrime network operating across India. The raids follow an investigation that uncovered the laundering of illicit funds generated from thousands of cybercrimes, including phishing scams, QR code fraud, and part-time job scams,” ED said.
Thr incident was captured in videos that surfaced on Internet. Thr visuals from the scene showed a broken piece of furniture on the floor in what looked like a living room of a house.
As per the case details, thousands of reported cases at I4C and FIU-IND were analysed in totality. It was found that crime money was being layered into 15000 mule accounts. The Debit/Credit cards were obtained. Using these cards, money was remitted to top up virtual accounts on UAE based Pyypl Payment Aggregator. Then funds were used from Pyypl to buy cryptocurrency.
