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11 arrested in three online cyber crime fraud cases
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad cyber police arrested 11 individuals linked to three major online frauds in which victims lost over Rs2 crore.
A 45-year-old software engineer from Sangvi lost Rs1.55 crore to a woman he met on a dating app in Feb last year.
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Posing as a brokerage executive, she promised good returns to help them buy a flat.
"She took money in phases till Nov, transferring it to multiple accounts," police said. The techie filed a complaint on Saturday.
Senior inspector Ravikiran Nale said investigations led to a private bank account in Solapur. "The account holder revealed three men had used it under the pretext of online gaming. We arrested Shubham Mantha (25), Swapnil Baheti (35), and Prashik Navghare (26) from Pune airport while trying to flee to Nepal," he said.
Mantha and Baheti had links with cybercrooks in China.
In the second case, a local lost Rs3.3 lakh. "Rs2.1 lakh went to a Silvassa account. We arrested the holder, Salman Khan (32), who named three more men — Bundty Panchal (30), Intakhaf Khan (30), and Suraj Singh (34)," Nale added.
Earlier, on June 9, police nabbed two from Ahilyanagar for a Rs53 lakh "digital arrest" scam. The police said, "They led us to Avinash Palve, who ran mule accounts and bought crypto with the fraud money".
