The Faridabad police have arrested a gang of highly-sophisticated cybercriminals involved in duping (worth 27.61 crore) an export-import firm of Sonam Kapoor Ahuja's father-in-law Harish Ahuja. The Police confirmed on Friday that the tricksters had been duping Sonam's father-in-law Harish's Faridabad-based firm, Shahi Export Factory, by misappropriating Rebate of State and Central Taxes and Levies licences, meant for his firm, on the basis of his forged Digital Signature Certificate and encashing them.
Explaining the modus operandi of the highly innovative cyber fraud, Faridabad Deputy Commissioner of Police (Headquarters) Nitish Agarwal said, "The government gives some incentives to export firms in the form of ROSCTL licenses, entitling them to some rebate in the excise and customs duties. These ROSCTL licenses are similar to digital coupons worth several lakh rupees, the DCP said, adding the fraudsters had secured a total of 154 ROSCTLs worth 27.61 crore of Ahuja’s firm and had been transferring them to fake and fictitious firms opened by them and encashing them. They also used to get these coupons encashed by transferring them to other firms."
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He said working silently on the complaint of Sunil Ahuja's firm since July last year, the Faridabad police has arrested a total of nine accused from different places in the country, including Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, and Karnataka. The last arrest was made on December 23 last year, the officer said, adding some of the accused included former clerks and employees of the Directorate General of Foreign Trade, well-versed in the technicalities and working of the DGFT.
The DCP identified the arrested accused as Delhi residents Manoj Rana, Manish Kumar, Praveen Kumar, Lalit Kumar Jain and Manish Kumar Moga besides Bhusan Kishan Thakur of Mumbai and Suresh Kumar Jain of Chennai.
(Source: PTI/Twitter)
