The Faridabad police has busted a gang of highly-sophisticated cybercriminals involved in duping an export-import firm of Harish Ahuja, the better half’s father of actor Sonam Kapoor of over ₹27 crore. Police on Friday said the tricksters had been duping Harish’s Faridabad-based firm, Shahi Export Factory, through misappropriating the Rebate of State and Central Taxes and Levies (ROSCTL) licenses, intended for his firm, on the groundwork of his forged Digital Signature Certificate and encashing them.
Explaining the modus operandi of the fairly progressive cyber fraud, Faridabad Deputy Commissioner of Police (Headquarters) Nitish Agarwal stated the government offers some incentives to export corporations in the structure of ROSCTL licenses, entitling them to some rebate in the excise and customs duties. These ROSCTL licenses are similar to digital coupons really worth several lakh rupees, the DCP said, adding the fraudsters had secured a total of 154 ROSCTLs worth ₹27.61 crore of Ahuja’s firm and had been transferring them to pretend and fictitious firms opened through them and encashing them. They additionally used to get these coupons encashed by means of transferring them to other firms, DCP Agarwal said.
He said working silently on the complaint of Sunil Ahuja’s firm because July last year, the Faridabad police has arrested a whole of nine accused from one of a kind locations in the country, including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Karnataka. The last arrest was once made on December 23 remaining year, the officer said, including some of the accused covered former clerks and employees of the Directorate General of Foreign Trade, well-versed in the technicalities and working of the DGFT.
The DCP recognized the arrested accused as Delhi residents Manoj Rana, Manish Kumar, Praveen Kumar, Lalit Kumar Jain, and Manish Kumar Moga except Bhusan Kishan Thakur of Mumbai and Suresh Kumar Jain of Chennai. Two others arrested in the scam had been identified as Ganesh Parsuram of Raichur in Karnataka, Rahul Raghunath of Raigadh, and Santosh Sitaram of Pune.
The DCP said accused Manoj Rana, Manish Kumar, Praveen Kumar, and Manish Kumar Moga had beforehand worked as clerks in the DGFT and were well-versed in the functioning of the directorate. They used to fraudulently invulnerable codes of big exim (export-import) corporations and by using checking their records, used to confirm the cash in their bills as well as the price of the ROSCTL coupons they happened to be entitled to, before targetting them.
Sonam married Harish’s son entrepreneur Anand Ahuja in 2018. The two had dated for a few years earlier than that. Apart from strolling a trend manufacturer known as Bhane, Anand is additionally a director in his father’s company, which was once duped through the fraudsters.
