Gurugram: The Gurugram Police has said that the four suspects arrested in connection with a Chinese phone app loan racket were hired and trained by a man who was on board of several illegal companies involved in duping people, and added that illegal call centres were also set up at his instance.
In a press conference on Saturday, the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) said that after search and seizure operations conducted by the Union ministry of corporate affairs on September 8, the agency had arrested a person named Dorste (first name only) from Gaya.
Police said raids were conducted on the offices of Jillian Consultants India Private Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Jilian Hong Kong Ltd., at Gurugram, Bangalore and Hyderabad.
Dortse was on the Board of Jillian India Ltd and has now emerged as the mastermind of the whole racket of incorporating large number of shell companies with Chinese links in India and providing dummy directors on their Boards, said police.
Police has recovered boxes filled with company seals and digital signatures of dummy directors during the raids.
The investigators said that the probe so far has revealed that the racket targeted mostly those who had low financial literacy and were not alert to the prospects of identity and data theft from their digital transactions.
Jasvir Singh, station house officer of Cyber police station West, said that they busted the gang in coordination with other cyber crime units of the city. He said the…
