Bhubaneswar: The branch of crime, investigating the alleged hacking of Whatsapp from senior government officials, sending the team to Bengaluru on Tuesday to interrogant Nigerian Nigeria residents, who were arrested by Delhi police on Saturday in connection with national cybercrime.
OKWUDIRI PASCHAL, 40, is currently interrogated by Delhi police in Bengaluru.
Police Delhi has caught the front foot of Paschal Chimelum Emmanuel Aniwetalu aka Maurice at 1.
“Our officers will question Paschal, which seems to be the main suspect in our case (WhatsApp Hacking).
We have taken permission from Delhi police to interrogate their paschal detention in Bengaluru , “said Director General of Police (crime branch) Sanjeeb Panda said.
WhatsApp account from Manoj Kumar Pattnik, the additional secretary of the state electronics and the Department of Information Technology was hacked on November 9, hackers deceived contact Pattnik by sending them messages of distress and demanding money for bureaucrat treatment.
Some contact near Pattnaik, all IT professionals, have transferred around Rs 7 Lakh to a hacker account.