Youth, Mongolian held from Ghaziabad for cyber crime
INDORE, February 9 (The Times of India) City crime branch on Friday has claimed to have busted an international cyber crime gang and arrested two accused- an Indian Varun Batra, and a Mongolian national Munndro from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh. Two other accused a Mongolian identified as Tamir and a Sri Lankan national Hassim are on the run.
Varun, 21-year-old, a resident of Ghaziabad who has passed high school (10th) along with his associates from Mongolia and Sri Lanka has siphoned around Rs 9.79 lakh (Mogi: lakh is a unit of 100,000) from nine different bank accounts of Hindi daily 'Nai Dunia' in September 2011. A case was registered at Annapurna police station in December 2011 and after one-and-half year of investigation by Indore police gang was busted.
Inspector general of police (Indore) Anuradha Shankar said, "This is one of the rarest of rare cyber crime cases and probably this is the first time when a district-level police has cracked such a case."
Elaborating about the case, IG said, accused has used fake documents to get data card which was used for the crime and fake email address to execute their plan. To make matter more complex accused had used data cards from different locations from across India.
Varun learned hacking online and after trying his hands on hacking small sites and got in touch with hackers from Mongolia and Sri Lanka through 'hacker forum' on internet and hatched a plan to withdraw money from corporate accounts and to execute their plan they got access to passwords of bank accounts through cyber logs and attacked the routers which were vulnerable without knowing the actual owner of accounts.
Accused siphoned money from nine accounts of Punjab National Bank (PNB) of the Hindi news daily and transferred it to CC-Avenue(a gaming website based in China) from there the money was transferred to mol.com and redeemed in Shanghai. A share of money was transferred to a bank account in New Delhi from which Varun withdrew his share.
IG said it was very difficult to trace the accused as perpetrators used fake addresses, documents and changed places, but the user log of data card- which was used for crime came handy while tracing the accused. "Data card was in use only for 45 days."
She said the accused Varun has confessed withdrawing his share of money transferred to him within three days of the crime and also admitted to the involvement in other internet frauds. They have been recharging mobile numbers of people by siphoning money from any random account through internet. "Everyday they used to withdraw around Rs 50,000 for recharging mobile number but they were withdrawing not more than Rs 500 from one particular account," said she.
Deputy inspector general (DIG) Rakesh Gupta said that he has informed the higher officials about the incident and the two details of accused, one Mogolian and a Sri Lankan who are on the run.
Varun, 21-year-old, a resident of Ghaziabad who has passed high school (10th) along with his associates from Mongolia and Sri Lanka has siphoned around Rs 9.79 lakh (Mogi: lakh is a unit of 100,000) from nine different bank accounts of Hindi daily 'Nai Dunia' in September 2011. A case was registered at Annapurna police station in December 2011 and after one-and-half year of investigation by Indore police gang was busted.
Inspector general of police (Indore) Anuradha Shankar said, "This is one of the rarest of rare cyber crime cases and probably this is the first time when a district-level police has cracked such a case."
Elaborating about the case, IG said, accused has used fake documents to get data card which was used for the crime and fake email address to execute their plan. To make matter more complex accused had used data cards from different locations from across India.
Varun learned hacking online and after trying his hands on hacking small sites and got in touch with hackers from Mongolia and Sri Lanka through 'hacker forum' on internet and hatched a plan to withdraw money from corporate accounts and to execute their plan they got access to passwords of bank accounts through cyber logs and attacked the routers which were vulnerable without knowing the actual owner of accounts.
Accused siphoned money from nine accounts of Punjab National Bank (PNB) of the Hindi news daily and transferred it to CC-Avenue(a gaming website based in China) from there the money was transferred to mol.com and redeemed in Shanghai. A share of money was transferred to a bank account in New Delhi from which Varun withdrew his share.
IG said it was very difficult to trace the accused as perpetrators used fake addresses, documents and changed places, but the user log of data card- which was used for crime came handy while tracing the accused. "Data card was in use only for 45 days."
She said the accused Varun has confessed withdrawing his share of money transferred to him within three days of the crime and also admitted to the involvement in other internet frauds. They have been recharging mobile numbers of people by siphoning money from any random account through internet. "Everyday they used to withdraw around Rs 50,000 for recharging mobile number but they were withdrawing not more than Rs 500 from one particular account," said she.
Deputy inspector general (DIG) Rakesh Gupta said that he has informed the higher officials about the incident and the two details of accused, one Mogolian and a Sri Lankan who are on the run.
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