Three members of an inter-State gang involved in duping people in the name of investment in share market were nabbed by Cyber crime police; accused used to operate fake firm Apex Broking firm to cheat customers targeting 130 victims duping to the tune of Rs 2 crores.
Police said that from the miscreants 3 laptops, 19 mobile phones, 35 SIM cards, 2 ATM cards and other documents used in the case have been recovered from the accused, as well as the account used in the crimes having Rs 3,15000 have been blocked.
The victims were duped in the name of making their lapsed policy active and would ask to deposit money in different bank accounts.
In the initial investigation a complaint was made by one of the victim that the company named Apex Broking Firm contacted and asked to open investment and DEMAT account in the stock market for more Profit and money was deposited in the bank account of Apex Broking firm which was found to be fake.
The main accused Narendra Patel worked on a plan to form a fake firm by watching videos related to stock market on YouTube. He, along with the associates, used to contact the victims and when the victim ask for their money back, they keep the money with them, telling them that loss was made.
A call center named Apex Broking Firm was operated by accused Narendra Patel, training was given by Deepak Patel to employees and, salary allocation and calling from the employees by managed by Rajkumar Patel. At the call centre besides this, 07 girls and 18 boys, a total of 25 people were working to call the investors. About 130 people of different states have been cheated by them to the tune of Rs 2 crore.
