Cyber police bust Ghaziabad-based syndicate, arrests six

Mumbai: This Ghaziabad-based cybercrime syndicate of six people, had divided their responsibilities equally. Three of them, working for call centres linked to insurance firms, would dupe customers with promise of policies that earned high returns. And the other three; set up bank accounts to receive and withdraw the victims’ money. They earned crores of rupees this way until the North Region Cyber police busted them.

The arrested accused have been identified as Amitkumar Singh (30), Manishkumar Mishra (31), Vimalkumar Shankhwar (26), Shyambabu Pasi (28), Imran Siddiqui (36) and Satish Pal (40). All the six accused were arrested from UP on February 5 and brought to Mumbai. The police have also identified some more suspects involved in the racket and efforts are underway to trace and apprehend them.