By PTI
CHANDIGARH: Seven folks arrested for allegedly giving demise threats and making extortion calls to a number of MLAs had accomplices in Pakistan and a few international locations within the Middle East, the Haryana Police mentioned on Saturday.
Four MLAs of Haryana, three from Punjab and two from Delhi had just lately acquired risk calls from the accused.
The accused — Amit Yadav alias Radheshyam Kumar Yadav, Saddiq Anwar, Sanoj Kumar, Kaish Alam, Dulesh Alam, Badre Alam and Abulesh Alam — have been arrested just lately.
During investigation, it was discovered that the accomplices of the accused have been Iqbal Kaish Alam, Sadiq and Rakesh within the Middle East and Ali, Nazir, Wasim, Shabbir, Imran, M D Khan and Rafiq in Pakistan.
The accused tried to extort cash from the dignitaries in a deliberate method by claiming to be native gangsters, the police mentioned in a press release.
The arrested accused, Kaish Alam, had lived in Dubai for about three years.
WhatsApp chats amongst a number of the accused revealed that within the final eight months 867 transactions have been made by means of 727 financial institution accounts, and a transaction of about Rs 2.77 crore was detected, the police mentioned.
All these financial institution accounts have been operated by Iqbal Kaish Alam, Sadiq, Rakesh, Ali, Nazir, Wasim, Shabbir, Imran, MD Khan and Rafiq sitting in Pakistan and Middle East international locations, they mentioned.
These financial institution accounts have been frozen.
The cash acquired by fraudsters utilizing these financial institution accounts is distributed to Pakistan by means of hawala, the police mentioned, including that additional investigation within the matter was underway.
CHANDIGARH: Seven folks arrested for allegedly giving demise threats and making extortion calls to a number of MLAs had accomplices in Pakistan and a few international locations within the Middle East, the Haryana Police mentioned on Saturday.
Four MLAs of Haryana, three from Punjab and two from Delhi had just lately acquired risk calls from the accused.
The accused — Amit Yadav alias Radheshyam Kumar Yadav, Saddiq Anwar, Sanoj Kumar, Kaish Alam, Dulesh Alam, Badre Alam and Abulesh Alam — have been arrested just lately.
During investigation, it was discovered that the accomplices of the accused have been Iqbal Kaish Alam, Sadiq and Rakesh within the Middle East and Ali, Nazir, Wasim, Shabbir, Imran, M D Khan and Rafiq in Pakistan.
The accused tried to extort cash from the dignitaries in a deliberate method by claiming to be native gangsters, the police mentioned in a press release.
The arrested accused, Kaish Alam, had lived in Dubai for about three years.
WhatsApp chats amongst a number of the accused revealed that within the final eight months 867 transactions have been made by means of 727 financial institution accounts, and a transaction of about Rs 2.77 crore was detected, the police mentioned.
All these financial institution accounts have been operated by Iqbal Kaish Alam, Sadiq, Rakesh, Ali, Nazir, Wasim, Shabbir, Imran, MD Khan and Rafiq sitting in Pakistan and Middle East international locations, they mentioned.
These financial institution accounts have been frozen.
The cash acquired by fraudsters utilizing these financial institution accounts is distributed to Pakistan by means of hawala, the police mentioned, including that additional investigation within the matter was underway.
