Nepal Cop To Help City Police In Fake Loan Apps Probe | Mumbai News

MUMBAI: In a joint investigation into the fake loan app scam, a dedicated officer from Nepal’s cyber police wing has been assigned to coordinate with Bandra-Kurla Complex cyber cops to provide probe details of two Nepali call centres —Blue Sky Business Solutions and Sky World Service Pvt Ltd —busted in the last week of July. The call centres would edit Indian loan app victims’ photos. The morphed nude images and videos would be used by the loan app “recovery agents” for blackmail and extortion.
Mumbai cyber police said they learnt the loan app fraudsters had outsourced editing of the photos and making threat calls to lakhs of victims across the country following the arrest of 14 suspects, including three women, in the case involving Rs 350 crore extortion amount since 2018.
Nepal police have shared details of 71 arrested accused from the two call centres raided last month, including two Indians, Neha Gupta (19) from Bihar and Manish Saini (26), employed at the supervisory level at Blue Sky Business Solutions since November 2021.
Of the 14 accused arrested by BKC police between June 26 and July 13, three including two women from Manipur were released on bail. On Tuesday, the remaining 11 were produced before the Kurla court and their custody was extended till August 8. Mumbai cyber police sought their custody to get more bank transaction details as they had found Rs 130 crore from one of the suspects, Sneha Somani…