Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh): In what could be termed a significant achievement for the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force, a person identified as the main accused Sunil Kumar Jaiswal has been arrested. The accused was held for having defrauded people of billions of rupees by luring them to invest in a company named Shine Group. A mobile phone, laptop, PAN card, Aadhaar card, passport, an international air ticket and four ATM cards have been recovered from the accused. A case was filed in Gauriganj PS of Amethi and the accused has been sent to jail for further legal action.
According to sources, the accused Sunil Kumar Jaiswal had created the websites 'SKYOCEAN.LIVE, SKYOCEANCOIN.LIVE' in Dubai and using them resorted to the scam in India. The STF team as part of the investigation have been observing the accused for a long time and on being tipped off by an informer, succeeded in nabbing Jaiswal from the Nawabganj police station area of Prayagraj late on Sunday night.
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In the interrogation, it was revealed that Jaiswal has been working as a website software designer for Net Web Technology, Prayagraj (Allahabad) since 2018 and was handed the project of creating websites 'SKYOCEAN.LIVE, SKYOCEANCOIN.LIVE' by Rashid Naseem, Ankit Singh and Brijmohan Singh in October 2020. On having completed the websites, in March 2021, Rashid and Naseem called him to Dubai. It was then that a seminar involving 80 team leaders was organized, wherein they were briefed about the websites and company's plans as to how people could be lured into making investments. After this, he returned to India on 31 March 2021. In addition to the software, he had also created the websites - HEDGEX.EU, HEDGEX.UK, HEDEGCRYPTO.IO on the request of Naseem, and has been looking into its operations.
Meanwhile, the operations of SKYOCEAN.LIVE was handed over last month by the accused to Anand Quarry Technology located in Lucknow's Vibhuti Khand area. Later, on June 30, 2021, Rashid Naseem rang Jaiswal and alerted him about the arrests of Brijmohan Singh, Ankit Kumar, Mohammad Faizan Ansari and Subhash Tukaram Devkate, adding that the police could carry out raids at any time. Naseem had also instructed Jaiswal to delete all data from their systems as soon as possible, however, by then the STF had apprehended the accused.
