Multi-crore online gaming fraud operated from Dubai busted, 16 arrested

The Gautam Buddha Nagar police raided a building and arrested 16 people Tuesday in connection with an online gaming fraud operated from Dubai which is believed to have spread to different parts of India.

The police said the accused, who hailed from Jhansi, Hamirpur, Lucknow, had rented the three-storey building in Noida Sector-108 to operate the fraud. They used to park their vehicle on the ground floor; the first floor was always vacant, the second floor was their place of stay and the third floor was the place from where the whole scam was being operated. The accused locked the main gate while going out and coming inside the building, so the local people thought that no one lived in the building.