Hyderabad: In the continuing crackdown against the dubious instant loan apps cheating and harassing people, the cyber crime wing of Hyderabad police has arrested a Chinese national who was trying to escape from the country.
27 year old Zhur Wei alias Lambo was arrested at the Delhi airport almost a week after raids across many cities in India exposed a massive fraud and extortion running into several billions dollars which was transferred out of the country in the form of bitcoins.
Arrest of Lambo, who hails from Xiangxi province, has taken the criminal investigations by the police of Telangana, Haryana, Karnataka and many other Indian states close to the alleged Chinese brain behind the operations.
Crackdown on illegal instant loan apps; 17 arrested from Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad
Based on complaints, the Hyderabad and Cyberabad police have registered 16 and 7 cases, respectively, against such companies. December 23, 2020 10:30:06 am
The Cyberabad police registered a case under sections 420 (cheating), 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC and also invoked section 66 of the IT Act, section 3, 10, and 13(1) of the Telangana Money Lenders Act and started an investigation.
Cracking down on illegal app-based instant microloan lending companies, Hyderabad police arrested 11 persons from Delhi, Gurgaon and the Cyberabad police arrested six others here. Based on complaints, the Hyderabad and Cyberabad police have registered 16 and 7 cases, respectively, against such companies.
Call centres in Gurgaon, Hyderabad raided; staff were reporting to Indonesian handlers.
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Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar on Tuesday addresses the media on the crackdown against unauthorised loan apps | VINAY MADAPU By Express News Service
HYDERABAD: Cracking down on the activities of illegal online loan apps fleecing innocent people, Hyderabad police arrested 11 persons and Cyberabad police arrested six persons, including a US returnee, on Tuesday. Police found that the arrested persons in Gurgaon and in the city were working under instructions from their handlers in Indonesia. The loan app organisers have been charging an exorbitant interest of up to 50 per cent per annum.
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Dec 22, 2020, 17:02 IST
HYDERABAD: The sleuths of Cyber Crime PS, Cyberabad nabbed six members in connection with instant personal loan apps mafia like Cash Mama, Loan Zone and Dhana Dhan. These app were operated under companies named Onion Credit Private Ltd with Directors K. Sarath Chandra, K. Pushpalatha and CRED FOX Technologies Pvt Ltd with directors K Sharath Chandra and V Chaitanya. A total of three Laptops, 3 Desktops, 22 Mobile Phones were seized and 18 bank accounts with an amount Rs. 1.52 crores were freezed.
This investigation comes in the wake of a unemployed techie’s death by suicide in Hyderabad and an agriculture extension officer in Siddipet district in the last few days, allegedly owing to harassment and humiliation over repayment by this mafia.