A cheating complaint in Hyderabad unearths Chinese online gambling scam worth crores

It seemed like a regular case of cheating when two persons approached the cyber crime wing of the Hyderabad police earlier this month, complaining of losing Rs 97,000 and Rs 1.64 lakh respectively to a website dealing with online gaming — which is banned in Telangana. But investigations into the complaints have unearthed a larger conspiracy involving Chinese nationals and resulted in the recovery of Rs 30 crore from two bank accounts in Gurugram.

Now, Cyber Crime officials are terming this an unprecedented case, for multiple reasons.

On August 14, Hyderabad City Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar announced that the total value of the inward transaction on the two accounts traced so far was nearly Rs 1100 crore, most of it in 2020, transferred to different other accounts that are now being traced.