Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch Arrests 6 Members of a Cambodia & Nepal-Based Chinese Cyber Fraud Gang
In a major breakthrough, the Ahmedabad City Cyber Crime Branch has apprehended six individuals associated with a cyber fraud racket operated by Chinese nationals from Cambodia and Nepal. Acting on the directions of Police Commissioner G.S. Malik and under the supervision of senior officers, the Cyber Crime team uncovered a gang that fraudulently accessed bank accounts of Indian citizens and siphoned off large sums of money.
The gang lured account holders by promising legal fund transfers from Dubai. In one such case, the accused deceived a person named Pranay Bhavsar, took him to Kathmandu, Nepal, and confined him in a hotel for six days. During his confinement, the accused accessed his ICICI bank account and email ID without consent, and transferred approximately ₹49 lakh into various accounts with the help of Chinese operatives.
The six arrested accused are:
- Manan Goswami (Ahmedabad)
- Rahul Yadav (Ahmedabad)
- Arif Saiyed (Ahmedabad)
- Gautam alias Marko (Surat)
- Chirag alias Manan Dhola (Surat)
- Yash Yadav (Ahmedabad)
Modus Operandi:
- The gang collected bank account kits from Indian citizens and sent them to Cambodia.
- Victims were lured abroad with fake job offers, had their passports seized, and were forced to commit cybercrimes.
- The gang used these accounts to launder fraud money, converting it into cryptocurrency (USDT) and sending it to key players abroad.
- Over 200 complaints related to accounts used by this gang have been registered on the NCCRP portal.
The operation was led by ACP H.S. Makadiya and PI N.S. Khokhar, whose teams used technical analysis and human intelligence to identify and arrest the accused from Ahmedabad and Surat.
