<p>Bengaluru: The Adugodi police in southeastern Bengaluru have arrested 12 people, mainly from Uttar Pradesh, for operating a 'sophisticated; cybercrime ring, police officials said on Wednesday.</p><p>The two key suspects are Harshavardhan Ojha, 25, from Ballia in UP and Sonu, 27, from Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra.</p><p>Ojha, a BTech graduate, was unemployed, while Sonu, a high school dropout, worked as a labour contractor in Mumbai, though he was originally from Prayagraj in UP.</p><p>Their arrested associates are Akash Kumar Yadav, 23, Gorakhnath Yadav, 20, Sanjith Kumar, 25, Akash Kumar, 19, Amith Yadav, 19, Gaurav Pratap Singh, 22, Brijesh Singh, 20, Raj Mishra, 21, Tushar Mishra, 22, and Gautam Shailesh, 25. Except for Sanjith, who was from Bihar, the rest hailed from different parts of Uttar Pradesh.</p>.Bank officer held for stealing gold ornaments worth Rs 2 crore.<p>From them, investigators recovered 400 SIM cards, 140 ATM cards, 17 cheque books, 27 mobile phones, 22 bank passbooks, an income and expenses ledger, and Rs 15,000 in cash.</p><p>The police said a complaint was registered at the Adugodi station on January 22 after a homemaker was cheated of Rs 5 lakh.</p><p>The 42-year-old victim from LR Nagar was lured with a work-from-home opportunity, but was asked to transfer money to “fix her low credit score” so she could be paid for the job. Believing the fraudsters, the woman transferred the money in multiple transactions.</p><p>The police, who began their probe, issued a notice to the holder of the bank account where the money had been transferred and discovered that it was opened at the behest of Sonu.</p><p>On April 19, investigators traced Sonu to his workplace in Mumbai. During questioning, Sonu admitted that he had opened multiple bank accounts through labour contract workers and sent the passbooks, ATM cards, and SIM cards to associates in Uttar Pradesh. He received Rs 1,500 as commission for each bank account.</p><p>Further investigations revealed that commissions varied, with accounts from nationalised banks fetching between Rs 18,000 and Rs 20,000.</p><p>All the suspects were arrested and produced before a local court in Uttar Pradesh on April 27.</p><p>The following day, they were brought to Bengaluru on a transit remand, interrogated, and presented before a local court, which remanded them to judicial custody. Adugodi police inspector Ravi Kumar C supervised the investigation.</p>
<p>Bengaluru: The Adugodi police in southeastern Bengaluru have arrested 12 people, mainly from Uttar Pradesh, for operating a 'sophisticated; cybercrime ring, police officials said on Wednesday.</p><p>The two key suspects are Harshavardhan Ojha, 25, from Ballia in UP and Sonu, 27, from Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra.</p><p>Ojha, a BTech graduate, was unemployed, while Sonu, a high school dropout, worked as a labour contractor in Mumbai, though he was originally from Prayagraj in UP.</p><p>Their arrested associates are Akash Kumar Yadav, 23, Gorakhnath Yadav, 20, Sanjith Kumar, 25, Akash Kumar, 19, Amith Yadav, 19, Gaurav Pratap Singh, 22, Brijesh Singh, 20, Raj Mishra, 21, Tushar Mishra, 22, and Gautam Shailesh, 25. Except for Sanjith, who was from Bihar, the rest hailed from different parts of Uttar Pradesh.</p>.Bank officer held for stealing gold ornaments worth Rs 2 crore.<p>From them, investigators recovered 400 SIM cards, 140 ATM cards, 17 cheque books, 27 mobile phones, 22 bank passbooks, an income and expenses ledger, and Rs 15,000 in cash.</p><p>The police said a complaint was registered at the Adugodi station on January 22 after a homemaker was cheated of Rs 5 lakh.</p><p>The 42-year-old victim from LR Nagar was lured with a work-from-home opportunity, but was asked to transfer money to “fix her low credit score” so she could be paid for the job. Believing the fraudsters, the woman transferred the money in multiple transactions.</p><p>The police, who began their probe, issued a notice to the holder of the bank account where the money had been transferred and discovered that it was opened at the behest of Sonu.</p><p>On April 19, investigators traced Sonu to his workplace in Mumbai. During questioning, Sonu admitted that he had opened multiple bank accounts through labour contract workers and sent the passbooks, ATM cards, and SIM cards to associates in Uttar Pradesh. He received Rs 1,500 as commission for each bank account.</p><p>Further investigations revealed that commissions varied, with accounts from nationalised banks fetching between Rs 18,000 and Rs 20,000.</p><p>All the suspects were arrested and produced before a local court in Uttar Pradesh on April 27.</p><p>The following day, they were brought to Bengaluru on a transit remand, interrogated, and presented before a local court, which remanded them to judicial custody. Adugodi police inspector Ravi Kumar C supervised the investigation.</p>
