Dehradun: As part of its ongoing operations against cyber crimes, the Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) has busted an international cyber crime gang in Pune, Maharashtra, and arrested a Nigerian youth and an Indian husband-wife couple. The gang, busted with the help of Pune cyber police, had spread its network all over the country to carry out large-scale frauds.
The STF recovered evidence in the form of bank cheque books, a large number of electronic gadgets and three passports from the accused.
According to the STF, preliminary investigation has revealed that the modus operandi of the gang used to have a foreign woman using matrimonial websites to propose friendship and marriage followed by big profits in business. In this way, it targeted people all over the country and defrauded them of lakhs and crores of rupees.
The STF has has recovered 10 mobile phones, 76 active SIM cards, three passports, 15 bank cheque books, two net setter devices and other types of electronic gadgets from the possession of this international cyber gang.