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Three people—Tushar Kharbanda, Gaurav Malik, and Ankit Jain—have been taken into custody by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for their roles in a cryptocurrency scam that stole ₹260 crore worth of Bitcoins from elderly people in the US and Canada.
Targeting older citizens in the US and Canada, the accused pretended to be representatives of various services, including Microsoft tech assistance, Amazon support, and foreign law enforcement authorities.
Their gang members in Dubai converted and took out the more than 316 Bitcoins they had gathered in their wallets.
The primary suspect, Kharbanda, operated the criminal conspiracy with his partners using phony call centers in Delhi and Noida, hiring more than 150 telecallers.
For example, Kharbanda pretended to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and persuaded
Kharbanda posed as an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and convinced a victim that his identity was being used fraudulently. Under coercion, the victim was forced to transfer almost 93,000 Canadian dollars into cryptocurrency using Bitcoin ATMs in Canada, all of which were linked to Kharbanda and his associates’ cryptocurrency wallets.
The CBI launched the action based on information provided by the RCMP via the National Central Bureau, a country’s focal point for all Interpol activity. The CBI raided the accused’s home and workplace, and the digital devices recovered revealed scripts for multiple fraud schemes, including impersonating US Social Security Administration agents and engaging in false transactions with fraud prevention departments.
