A CID team has arrested two accused for defrauding hundreds of people from various districts of the state, including Jharkhand’s capital Ranchi, of Rs 5 crore by luring them to invest in crypto-currencies and profit of lakhs of rupees. One of the arrested accused is Amit Jaiswal (36), a resident of Shankar Garden Vikaspuri, New Delhi, while the other accused is Shashi Shankar Kumar alias Vicky (36), a resident of Brahmapura Police Station, District Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Three mobile phones, three SIMs and blockchain wallet addresses to which investors had sent money have also been seized from the arrested accused.
In November 2023, it was stated by the prosecutor that initially these people were benefited through gold bonds by accused Shashi Shankar Kumar alias Vicky. After taking him into confidence, Shashishankar Kumar was lured by his friend Amit Jaiswal to earn millions by investing in crypto currencies. Not only this, the accused traveled three times to Dubai and once to Russia to trap people. That is, with the lure of earning lakhs of rupees every month, they were also made to travel abroad, after which the victims fell into the trap of both the accused and also made their relatives to invest in crypto currencies suggested by them. people
The temptation was to earn more profit
The accused were deceiving everyone and said that through the official website of ‘OROPAY’ www.oropay.io, they would be able to earn more profit by data mining through artificial intelligence technology and the investors would be able to get the amount of profit. Invested by them through Analog Trade Pack and Pro Trade Pack, they will get returns ranging from 0.6% to 1.2% daily and up to 300% return on the total investment made by them. After this one after another everyone fell into their trap and started withholding money.
Events were organized in big hotels
Both the accused organized events in many big hotels of the state including the capital Ranchi, Bokaro, Jamshedpur, where free food and excellent accommodation were arranged. Not only that, bundles of Indian currency notes were torn and thrown away and it was said that now all these currencies (rupees) will be banned. Now is the age of crypto currency, those who invest in crypto currency today will become millionaires tomorrow. By doing this, both the accused cheated 150 to 200 people from different districts by luring them to invest approximately Rs.5 crores.
Traveled to Russia and Dubai
The investors came to know about the fraud when the website www.oropay.io created by the accused suddenly shut down one day. When the investors contacted these people, they misled and said that further work would be done from another website. Not only this, to deceive people once again, the accused used to hold virtual meetings with everyone every day through the Zoom app. Along with corporate meetings in expensive hotels, trips to Dubai and Russia were also planned.
Beware of unknown international calls
Meanwhile, to leave no doubt among the investors, a token named ‘DGFI/OPAY’ was launched by the accused, but when the investors went to sell the purchased token, they found that its value had gone to zero. After this he lodged a complaint with Cyber Crime Police Station under Crime Investigation Department, Jharkhand Ranchi. Criminal Investigation Department DG Anurag Gupta and DSP Neha Bala cracked the case and arrested both the accused. Along with this, to avoid such crimes, people were appealed not to exchange money by following WhatsApp messages received from any unknown international or virtual number.
