Delhi: 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 right here of over Rs 27 crore. Police on Friday mentioned the tricksters had been duping the actor’s father-in-law’s Faridabad-based agency, Shahi Export Factory, by misappropriating Rebate of State and Central Taxes and Levies licences, meant for his agency, on the idea of his cast Digital Signature Certificate and encashing them.Also Read – Anand Ahuja Gets Into a Verbal Spat With a US Based Company, Wife Sonam Kapoor Comes To Rescue
Explaining the modus operandi of the extremely modern cyber fraud, Faridabad Deputy Commissioner of Police (Headquarters) Nitish Agarwal mentioned the federal government provides some incentives to export corporations 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 value 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 value Rs 27.61 crore of Ahuja’s agency and had been transferring them to faux and fictitious corporations opened by them and encashing them. Also Read – Sonam Kapoor Reacts to Hijab Row: If Turban Can Be A Choice, Then Why Not Hijab
They additionally used to get these coupons encashed by transferring them to different corporations, DCP Agarwal mentioned. He mentioned working silently on the grievance of Ahuja’s agency since July final 12 months, 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 12 months, the officer mentioned, including a few of the accused included former clerks and staff of the Directorate General of Foreign Trade, well-versed within the technicalities and dealing of the DGFT. Also Read – Sonam Kapoor Looks Dreamy in Black Kaftan Worth Rs 1 Lakh | See Cozy Pics
The DCP recognized the arrested accused as Delhi residents Manoj Rana, Manish Kumar, Praveen Kumar, Lalit Kumar Jain and Manish Kumar Moga moreover 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 massive exim corporations and by checking their data, used to establish the cash of their accounts in addition to the worth of the ROSCTL coupons they occurred to be entitled to, earlier than focusing on them.
-PTI inputs
