Bhubaneswar, May 15: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Odisha police has arrested one more fraudster from Bhubaneswar in the illegal loan application case, EOW sources here on Sunday.
The sources said Tarun Dudeja of Sector- 48, Gurgaon was arrested from Bhubaneswar on Saturday under various sections of the Indian Penal Code including those related to criminal intimidation, obscenity, cheating, forgery, and criminal conspiracy.
Article 66 of the Information Technology Act which deals with cheating was also slapped on him.
Earlier Director of one shell company “IWT” was arrested and cash of Rs 6.57 crore was frozen. Dudeja is the director/ proprietor of dubious shell companies.— Digital Batua, Ipaisa online services Private Limited, Switzerland Infotech Private Limited, Bazarpe Infotech Private Limited, Milanum Enterprise and Bachat online.
As many as 41 postpaid SIM cards in the name of various other persons were seized from him. He along with Javed Sahifi used to lure their employees, and interested vulnerable poor people to allow them to open bank accounts and take SIM cards using their names. These accounts would be used to channeliise the money collected through illegal loan applications.
The mobile SIM numbers connected to these bank accounts would be actually handled by the fraudsters. All the related information/ call/ OTP would land on these mobile numbers which are handled by the fraudsters and not by the actual account holder. This mechanism was used to create extra layers to confuse law enforcement agencies/ police.
Generally, they used 3-4 layers before the money landed in the mastermind’s account.
They disclosed that they pay around Rs one lakh to two lakh to the person concerned for allowing his/her bank account/ SIM to be used as Mule Account.
The EOW advised people not to give their documents for opening bank accounts to be operated by someone else and not allow anybody else to use their SIM.
