The Central Crime Branch (CCB) of the Bengaluru police on Monday announced the arrest of a 37-year-old engineer for allegedly defrauding a cybercrime victim who had already lost Rs 1.5 crore with fictitious legal assistance online.
The police identified the arrested accused as Chota Ahammed Mubaraq, also known as Tufail, a BE in Electronics and Communication graduate who is originally from Tamil Nadu but was residing in Kothanur, Bengaluru.
Seemant Kumar Singh, Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru, said the complaint in the case was filed at the Ramamurthy Nagar police station in February. “The victim lost Rs 12.5 lakh while seeking legal help online after cybercriminals conned him out of Rs 1.5 crore,” he added.
A search for help led the complainant to Quickmoto Legal Service, a fabricated company operated by Tufail, according to the police, who found that the company had no physical address.
However, during the investigation, the police located India Legal Service, a call centre in Kasturi Nagar, Bengaluru, where Tufail had allegedly recruited 12 telecallers to contact cybercrime victims. They allegedly used Zoiper-5, a free Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) application, to conceal their location from law enforcement. The operation was designed to target vulnerable individuals already victimised by cybercrimes.
“Tufail has a brother in Dubai who created multiple companies for cybercrime activities. Tufail exploited cybercrime victims by charging bogus service fees and legal charges,” a police officer said.
The police said that during raids at the call centre, they seized substantial evidence including 10 hard disks, seven counterfeit company seals, rent agreements, cheque books, documents, a mobile phone, a CPU, 11 Vodafone SIM cards, and an SIP (session initiation protocol) trunk server facilitating VoIP communications.
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The police said that 29 cases had been registered against the firm across the country over illegal transactions worth crores of rupees.
“The probe is now being expanded to trace and dismantle the larger syndicate,” an investigating officer stated.
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