| Posted on: 2012-01-10/01:42:20 | India - Fraud & Cyber Crime News | Others/ |
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A team of Anandnagar police station officials investigating the advanced payment lottery scam unearthed last month arrested one more accused on Sunday. Jayprakash Rawal, 23, is the brother of one of the accused in the case who was arrested earlier. Officials have seized a laptop from his residence in Satellite that is suspected to have data of various citizens that were used to open bank accounts on their names. According to officials, Jayprakash had fled to Rajasthan during the police crackdown recently after the scam was unearthed by media last month. He came to Ahmedabad to meet some of the contacts. As the investigators got information about him, he was apprehended from the residence. A student, Jayprakash used to look after databases of the venture. We believe that his laptop contains more information on the victims and citizens whose identities were used to open and operate bank accounts. He came in contact with Darshan Prajapati through his brother Ravi last year after which he started helping the group through his online activities. We believe that he was not directly involved in either calling the probable victims or operating the accounts," said M S Sindha, inspector of Anandnagar police station. He said that the laptop has been sent for forensic investigation to Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) on Monday. Earlier, investigators have arrested Darshan Prajapati, 20, a resident of Bopal, on January 4 and Jeetendra Rao, 20, a resident of Akshar Avenue, Anandnagar, and Ravi Rawal, 19, a native of Bhakrota near Jaipur in Rajasthan, on December 28. Talking about the group's modus operandi, Sindha said that Ravi and Jeetendra used to work at a shop near Vishal Tower in Anandnagar from where they procured documents used to open forged bank accounts on names of fictitious persons shown as residents of the locality. "A shop used to get the electricity and other utility bills for payment for a fee. While we believe that the shop owners might not be directly involved, they let the data be used by the duo. Investigation is on," said Sindha. |
| Source: T I | Location : Ahmedabad |
