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In the China loan application fraud case, the anti-cybercrime police of Vadodara took a step forward on Tuesday by arresting the main accused Umang Patel under the Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (PASA). He was sent to Rajkot Central Jail.
Patel, who was working as an accountant at APMC Markets in Chhota Udepur district, was arrested in April by Vadodara Cyber ​​Crime Police Station. Later, he was also arrested by the Rajkot Police for a second offense.
The PASA is “a law providing for the preventive confinement of shoe offenders, dangerous persons, drug offenders, immoral traffic offenders, and property offenders, to prevent their antisocial and dangerous activities prejudicial to the maintenance of public order,” according to the official description.
The Vadodara Cybercrime Police Station said on Tuesday that Patel had been sent to Rajkot Central Jail for his involvement in two similar crimes in Vadodara and Rajkot.
A native of Kavitha village in Sankeda Taluka in Chota Udaipur district, Patel has been out on bail since June.
In an FIR filed in April on the basis of a complaint filed by a resident of Vadodara against cyber harassment and extortion for extorting Chinese loan request “customers”, the Vadodara Police Anti-Cyber ​​Crime Station arrested eight people, including the main accused Umang Patil. He reportedly got into the fraudulent net after his older brother fell victim to an internet scam last year.
Patel is accused of harassing the complainant, who availed a loan of Rs 2.5 lakh from two instant loan mobile applications in China. Allegedly, Patel, through his network of agents, forwarded objectionable photographs of the complainant and extorted Rs 7.5 lakh via extortion. Later, when the complainant continued to demand the money, he called the Cybercrime Police Station.
Investigators found that the gang was involved in the theft of 1 crore Indian rupees for the Chinese mafia through transactions to Chinese crypto accounts and the IP addresses involved in the scam were traced to locations in Hong Kong and China. The police also found evidence that Umang Patel had personally met with the Chinese mafia in Kuala Lumpur in March to hand over the crime’s biggest tool – the sets of bank accounts of the “managers” of the shell companies.
Some transactions in the FIR were also conducted through accounts opened by Aumann, giving the police the much-needed hack to establish the China connection.
Umang is associated with opening 10 shell companies and 30 accounts in his name, the victim’s money was deposited into two of his accounts in a total deal of around Rs 15 crore, from which he received a commission of Rs 15,000, police said. He was arrested by the Rajkot Police Anti-Cyber ​​Crime Station on charges of extortion and other sections of the IT Act.
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