New Delhi : Delhi's Cyber Police has busted a gang of fraudsters who duped banks of over Rs 50 lakh by fraudulently using data of over 95 celebrities like Sachin Tendulkar, M S Dhoni, Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan and Sonam Kapoor. The conmen stole the personal data of the celebrities and then committed these bank frauds.
The police said that the conmen used fake ID cards of popular personalities to cheat the banks. The fraudsters had also misused the personal documents of Saif Ali Khan, Alia Bhatt, Shilpa Shetty and others, according to DCP (Deputy Commissioner of Police) Rohit Meena of Shahdara.
The police recovered many gadgets including 10 mobiles, 1 laptop, 3 CPUs, 34 fake PAN cards, 25 fake Aadhaar cards, 40 debit/credit cards and many other documents. Joint CP of Eastern Range Chhaya Sharma said that the arrested accused have been identified as 42-year-old Sunil Kumar, 25-year-old Puneet, 32-year-old Asif, 42-year-old Vishwa Bhaskar Sharma and 37-year-old Pankaj Mishra.
Chhaya Sharma told that the members of this gang used to make fake PAN cards and Aadhaar cards from the personal details of celebrities and get credit cards in the name of celebrities from One Card Bank. They used to do the shopping and also transfer cash with these credit cards. The investigation was started on the complaint of One Card Bank and till now 5 accused have been arrested. During interrogation, it has come to know that these accused have so far cheated more than 90 lakhs.
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DCP Rohit Meena told that the members of this gang used to find out the PAN number of the celebrity on the basis of GST number and after that they used to make fake PAN card and Aadhaar card and get the credit card made. In this process, the gang members used photographs, so that the verification could be done easily and the bank would not have any doubt.
One of the accused Pankaj Mishra has studied engineering, he used to work as technical support in this gang. Along with this, the accused Vishwa Bhaskar Sharma used to work as a staff in Government College, but left the job and started cheating by joining this gang. Accused Asif and Puneet used to run Aadhaar card and money transfer center. Sunil Kumar used to work in a factory, after that he started cheating people by making fake documents. At the same time, this gang has also cheated through the Chinese loan app.
