The third man was entrusted by the authors of the racket with investing the fraud sum (withdrawn from the mule accounts) further using the hawala route.“Probe till now has revealed that the 30 mule accounts used to park the fraud money, were the bank accounts held by farmers in different parts of Gujarat, who were promised Rs 5000 monthly in return for renting their accounts,” Saklecha added.Detailed analysis of the money trail in the 30 mule accounts revealed that a sum of Rs 6.96 crore was parked in those accounts, by duping investors in 16 states, including Delhi, Haryana, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, UP, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, MP and Telangana.According to Mandla police sources, the kingpin of the racket (who remains unknown) was using a fake call centre to dupe the investors across the country. That was the first rung of the multi-step racket. “The fake call centre was functioning from a place in Gujarat for the last few months, but has now been shut down and might have moved somewhere else,” a cop forming part of the probe said.
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