Rape accused arrested after 14 years
Uppinangady: Uppinangady police arrested a rape accused who had been absconding for the last 19 years in a case of rape there in 2004.
Hitesh, a resident of a village in 34 Nekkiladi, is the arrested accused.
Hitesh and a 34 Nekkiladi resident Girish had stormed into a house in Belthangady taluk and had violently raped a woman in front of her husband and children. Later they had fled. Now, the police have succeeded in arresting Hitesh from Bengaluru.
Under the guidance of Mangaluru SP Ravikante Gauda, Additional SP Sajit Kumar, DySP Shrinivas and Gopal Nayak, a team led by Uppinangady police station sub-inspector Nandkumar carried out the operation successfully. Uppinangady police constables Harischandra, Praveen Rai, Irshad, and Jagadish, were part of the team.
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CBI raids 15 locations in online fraud linked to overseas fintech platform
New Delhi (PTI): The CBI has conducted searches at 15 locations across multiple states in connection with a large-scale online financial fraud involving overseas fintech platform 'Pyypl', officials said Thursday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is now seeking custody of the alleged kingpin of the gang, Ashok Kumar Sharma, a chartered accountant, who was recently arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
The case was referred to the CBI by the Union home ministry's anti-cyber crime wing -- I4C. Following this, the agency registered a case and carried out searches on Wednesday in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab, they said.
According to investigators, Sharma was allegedly running a large-scale organised scam involving fraudulent investment schemes, cyber fraud, and illicit cryptocurrency transactions, and part-time job fraud involving offshore withdrawals and overseas fintech platforms from his office in Bijwasan on the Delhi-Gurugram border, which came to be known as the "Bijwasan Group".
The gang allegedly defrauded victims of Rs 900 crore last year alone. The proceeds were routed and laundered through a network of 15 shell companies identified so far, the agency said.
"The CBI conducted coordinated searches at 15 locations across Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab in connection with a case related to large-scale organised online investment and part-time job fraud involving offshore withdrawals and overseas fintech platforms, predominantly the Dubai-based 'Pyypl'," an agency spokesperson said in a statement.
"It was alleged that thousands of unsuspecting Indian citizens were cheated of crores of rupees through deceptive online schemes operated by an organised transnational fraud syndicate," she said.
The probe revealed that the network used social media platforms, mobile applications and encrypted messaging services to lure victims with promises of high returns from online investments and part-time job opportunities, the official said.
"The victims were initially induced to deposit small amounts and were shown fictitious profits to gain their trust, after which they were persuaded to invest larger sums," she said.
The defrauded money was then routed through multiple mule bank accounts to conceal the trail and later siphoned off through offshore ATM withdrawals using debit cards enabled for international transactions.
The funds were also diverted through wallet top-ups on overseas fintech platforms, predominantly "Pyypl", using Visa and MasterCard payment networks. These transactions appeared as Point-of-Sale (POS) transactions in banking systems, the agency said.
