Raipur, Aug 15: The Chhattisgarh Director General of Police, Arun Dev Gautam, has submitted a report to a Delhi Court in connection with allegations that IPS officer and two others accepted a bribe to cover up a multi-crore cyber fraud.
Bansal has denied the allegations against him, even as a CBI court continues to hear the case.
The allegations stem from a Rs 21.15 lakh cyber fraud case from last year at Chhattisgarh’s Ambikapur Cyber Police Station.
In a complaint to the Police, a man alleged that he had lost a hefty sum in 84 transactions through two fake trading platforms. A team led by Bansal, a 2022-batch IPS officer, investigated the case and filed a chargesheet against 23 people last year.
According to the CBI court’s July 1 order, the complainant approached the court when no action was taken by either the Chhattisgarh Police or the CBI.
Investigators say the inquiry eventually led the Police to uncover an alleged multi-state, internationally operated cyber-fraud network, with the police arresting 23 people in total.
The complaint before the Ambikapur police alleged that the IPS officer, through two other Policemen, demanded a bribe of Rs 1.5 crore to stop the investigation. Of this, Rs 1 crore was allegedly paid.
IPS Officer has denied any wrongdoing, saying that the allegations are baseless. The complaint is currently before the court, and I have complete faith in the judicial process and the law.
Police added hat the fraud was a “sophisticated, multi-state, internationally operated organised cyber-fraud syndicate” and named two key suspects, Haryana’s Anshul Ginotra and Delhi’s Garvit Jain.
The two are absconding, and the police have issued non-bailable warrants against them.
Investigators speaks that a multi-state and international network operated fake trading platforms, used mule bank accounts and fintech payment gateways, and moved proceeds through hawala and cryptocurrency to overseas destinations.
The main thing was that the accused didn’t use their real names but pseudonyms. They also used virtual numbers and numbers in the names of other persons.
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