
Sonam Kapoor along with her inlaws and husband Anand Ahuja
Highlights
- Faridabad police has busted a gang of highly-sophisticated cybercriminals that duped Harish Ahuja
- Police mentioned that Harish Ahuja’s case is that of a extremely revolutionary cyber fraud
- 10 have been arrested to this point and Police opened hunt for the fraudsters final yr in July
The Faridabad police has busted a gang of highly-sophisticated cybercriminals concerned in duping an export-import agency of the father-in-law of movie actor Sonam Kapoor of over Rs 27 crore.
Police on Friday mentioned the tricksters had been duping Kapoor’s father-in-law Harish Ahuja’s Faridabad-based agency, Shahi Export Manufacturing unit, by misappropriating Rebate of State and Central Taxes and Levies licences, meant for his agency, on the idea of his solid Digital Signature Certificates and encashing them.
Explaining the modus operandi of the extremely revolutionary cyber fraud, Faridabad Deputy Commissioner of Police (Headquarters) Nitish Agarwal mentioned the federal government offers some incentives to export companies within the type of ROSCTL licences, entitling them to some rebate within the excise and customs duties.
These ROSCTL licences occur to be akin to digital coupons price a number of lakh rupees entitling the agency to get rebates in taxes and duties, the DCP mentioned, including the fraudsters had secured a complete of 154 ROSCTLs price Rs 27.
61 crore of Ahuja’s agency and had been transferring them to pretend and fictitious companies opened by them and encashing them.
Additionally they used to get these coupons encashed by transferring them to different companies, DCP Agarwal mentioned.
He mentioned working silently on the criticism of Ahuja’s agency since July final yr, the Faridabad police has arrested a complete of 9 accused from completely different locations within the nation, together with Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Karnataka.
The final arrest was made on December 23 final yr, the officer mentioned, including a number of the accused included former clerks and staff of the Directorate Common of International Commerce, well-versed within the technicalities and dealing of the DGFT.
The DCP recognized the arrested accused as Delhi residents Manoj Rana, Manish Kumar, Praveen Kumar, Lalit Kumar Jain and Manish Kumar Moga in addition to Bhusan Kishan Thakur of Mumbai and Suresh Kumar Jain of Chennai.
Two others arrested within the rip-off have been recognized as Ganesh Parsuram of Raichur in Karnataka, Rahul Raghunath of Raigadh and Santosh Sitaram of Pune.
Agarwal mentioned accused Manoj Rana, Manish Kumar, Praveen Kumar and Manish Kumar Moga had earlier labored as clerks within the DGFT and have been well-versed within the functioning of the directorate.
They used to fraudulently safe codes of huge exim companies and by checking their information, used to determine the cash of their accounts in addition to the worth of the ROSCTL coupons they occurred to be entitled to, earlier than targetting them.