Delhi Police nabs three for aiding 'digital arrest', arranging mule accounts to receive proceeds

NEW DELHI: (Mar 18) The Delhi Police has arrested three persons for allegedly facilitating operations of a major 'digital arrest' fraud racket that duped a Paschim Vihar resident of Rs 14.2 lakh, an official said on Wednesday.

The accused -- Md Kaif (21) and Monish (21), residents of Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, and Sashindar Ram (29), a resident of Andhra Pradesh's Rangareddi -- were allegedly involved in arranging bank accounts to layer and launder proceeds of cybercrime, police said.

The case came to light after a complaint was lodged by Satyapal Gupta on February 21 alleging that he received a call from a person posing as a senior police officer. The caller claimed that Gupta's bank accounts were linked to money laundering operations and threatened him with arrest.