Delhi police nab 3 men for investment fraud and arrest 4 for APK scam

New Delhi: Delhi Police's Crime Branch has nabbed three men, including an LLB graduate, for their alleged role in a Rs 31 lakh investment fraud targeting an employee of a multinational technology firm. They allegedly posed as representatives of a leading investment firm and lured victims with promises of high returns on IPO through self-designed online portals. "The syndicate recruited financially weak people to open mule bank accounts," said DCP (crime) Aditya Gautam, adding that the accused were linked to multiple complaints on the NCRP. Technical surveillance led police to Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, where one accused was arrested, while two were bound down. Sarvjeet (35), an LLB graduate, allegedly provided a mule bank account in the name of a charity for money and handed it to co-accused Pawan (33) and Puneet (32), who supplied such accounts to cyber fraudsters. Puneet also allegedly received a bank account kit from Sarvjeet and a previously arrested accused, Deepak Saini. In another case, four men were arrested for allegedly cheating a chartered accountant from Krishna Nagar in Shahdara by posing as a private bank agent. The accused allegedly sent her an APK file on social media and debited Rs 75,694 from her credit card. DCP (Shahdara) Prashant Gautam said the money was used to purchase electronic items online, which were delivered to Charmwood village in Faridabad. The accused were traced to Surajkund in Faridabad, leading to the arrests of Ashish Kumar Ojha (23) and Vivek Kumar (37). Abhishek Kumar Jha (24) was later arrested in Bihar, while Ikrar (23) was nabbed from Pul Pehlad Pur in South Delhi.