Police in Chandauli have arrested two men accused of orchestrating a sprawling cyber fraud network across 16 states, using fake identities and mule bank accounts to siphon off approximately ₹29 lakh from victims involved in loans, scams, and investment schemes.
Chandauli police in Uttar Pradesh have arrested two men accused of helping run a cyber fraud network that allegedly cheated people in 16 states out of about ₹29 lakh, according to local police and reports from India Today’s Aaj Tak. Investigators said the operation used fake identity documents and mule bank accounts to move money taken through scams linked to loans, part-time jobs, parcel payments and investment offers.
Police identified the two suspects as Aman Sharma, a resident of Chandauli, and Nitish Kumar, from Nawada district in Bihar. According to the police account, Sharma allegedly travelled around the area opening bank accounts in other people’s names as well as his own, using forged Aadhaar cards to hide the group’s identity. He is then said to have collected bank passbooks, cheque books, debit cards and SIM cards tied to those accounts.
The network was reportedly coordinated through Bihar’s Nawada district, where police believe another accused, Sonu Singh, was overseeing the wider racket. Kumar is alleged to have passed on the banking materials he received from Sharma to Singh. Police said the accounts were used to route money from victims in several states, including Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, West Bengal, Karnataka, Telangana, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
The arrests come after a series of cybercrime crackdowns in Chandauli this year. The Times of India reported in June that police arrested three people in an inter-state loan fraud case involving fake microfinance companies, while another operation in July led to 12 arrests and nearly 51 complaints linked to suspected fraud worth around ₹1.8 crore. Officials say the latest case is part of the same wider effort to break mule-account networks and trace the people controlling them.
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