Nashik : Leading News Service- The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has busted a case of sending the country's youth abroad and keeping them engaged in cyber fraud with the lure of getting jobs. In this case, NIA has arrested a young suspect from Nashik. The name of the arrested youth is Sudarshan Darade. The investigation agencies have arrested a total of six suspects in this case.
According to a press release issued by the NIA, Darade was directly involved in an organized smuggling syndicate. He was involved in taking Indian youth abroad with false promises of employment abroad. Indian youths were forced to work in fake call centers in Laos, Golden Triangle SEZ and Cambodia. Also, it has come to light that this syndicate is being run by foreign suspects in other places. It also found links with suspects from other countries like India, Cambodia, Laos SEZ, UAE and Vietnam. The NIA has claimed that the suspects arrested so far are in connivance with traffickers operating across international borders to smuggle Indian youths from Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam into the Laos SEZ. Trafficked youth were forced to commit illegal acts online. In which citizens were being victimized financially in cases such as credit card fraud, forcing them to invest in cryptocurrencies using fake applications, honey traps etc. According to NIA investigations, five suspects have been arrested from various states of India since May 27. After that, the sixth suspect was arrested from Nashik on Friday (14th).
Trafficker-Cyber ​​Fraudster Relationship
The NIA team has seized documents, digital devices, bank account details, etc. An attempt is being made to investigate cases of human trafficking and cyber-cheating of youth. The NIA has taken over the probe from the Mumbai Police on May 13 as preliminary investigations have revealed country-wide links between smugglers and cyber scammers working on the orders of an international syndicate.
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