300 cloned cards seized
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police on Friday claimed to have arrested two hi-tech interstate ATM card cloners from Mahipal Pur area of South West Delhi. More than three hundred cloned cards were recovered from their possession. Investigators said that these criminals were in touch with some software engineers for decryption of collected data.
Police identified the accused as Krishna Gopal (22) and Sumit Gola (30). The duo, with the help of skimmer devices, had targeted ATMS of Delhi-ncr, Maharastra, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh. Apart from cloned cards, one skimmer device, spare batteries, camera cum scanner device and one loaded country-made pistol with two extra live cartridges were recovered from their possession
Deputy Commissioner of Police (south-west) Devender Arya said that the accused claimed that during crime Sumit used to took a close watch from 50-60 meters from ATM for any kind of disturbance. "After a few hours, they used to detach the skimmer from the ATM and extract the data in encrypted form," said DCP South West.
He further added that both the duo came in touch with some software engineers through online platforms having (end to end encryption) for decryption of collected data. "Both of the accused persons used to make payment of Rs. 100 to 12,000 for each decryption to these engineers via Bitcoin and cash deposit in their account," said DCP Arya.
After collecting decrypted data accused Krishna used to clone debit and credit cards. Later they used to make online payments and withdrawal of money using these cloned cards. Both accused further disclosed that they bought devices like skimmer devices, batteries, cameras and scanners cards having magnetic chip etc. used in the cloning of cards from the online shopping site. After receiving these products, accused Krishna assembled all these electronic devices.
Accused Gopal, in the year 2017, met one Ajay Chaudhary, who was also an inter-state cloner and mastermind of ATM robbery. Krishna left his job on offer provided by Ajay to join him. The other accused Sumit was lured by Krishna in the crime.
NEW DELHI: The Central Goods and Services Tax Delhi North Commissionerate has unearthed a racket of fake GST invoicing involving an amount of Rs 150 crore, with respect to which, the accused had facilitated fraudulent Input Tax Credit (ITC) of about Rs 22 crore, thus defrauding the public exchequer, officials here said.
They added that the accused Naveen Mutreja and Keshav Ram were found to be operating up to 42 fake firms as part of their modus operandi. Both Mutreja and Ram were arrested on Thursday and subsequently remanded to 14 days in judicial custody.
Both the accused were allegedly involved in obtaining GST registration for fake firms across Delhi NCR, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh using documents of unsuspecting individuals and generating good-less invoices and e-way bills of these firms from a premise in Karol Bagh, Delhi.
A preliminary probe shows that there is no nexus between inward and outward supplies of the errant firms, the officials said. Further, these fake firms have passed on fraudulent ITC to a range of buyers who have availed the same to discharge their GST liability on outward supplies.
Investigations are underway to identify the key beneficiaries of this racket and to recover GST involved.