Ghaziabad: Gang suspected of extorting employers and senior executives after squeezing them with sex images and video chat has been captured by arresting five members from flat in Raj Nagar’s extension.
Gang, said the police, targeted around 200 people in the past two years and extorted Rs 22 Crore from them.
It was run by a partner, who had employed three women with a monthly salary of Rs 25,000 and some of the money they made.
The veil was appointed from the gang after the police team from Rajkot visited Ghaziabad in connection with fraud and honey cases.
A few weeks ago, a businessman from Rajkot complained about a rental accountant in his company, Tushar, and alleged that he had sucked the RS lakh from a company account.
The police learned that Tushar used the money to pay the gang targeting him with sex video chat images.
The account where Tushar has deposited money to bring Rajkot police to Ghaziabad.
Explain Modus Operandi, SP (City 1) Nipurn Aggarwal said five gang members will open an account on various social media platforms and send friend requests to men.
After a few days of casual chat, they will share their WhatsApp figures with the target and ask them to make video calls.
When they did it, the defendant would imagine them and persuade them to strip.
Screenshots and video chat videos will be made and then used to squeeze the victim.
The source said many victims were entrepreneurs and senior private companies.
Most of them will give up on the demands of the gang and hold back not to go to the police, afraid of social stigma.
It works for a gang, which continues to target men for two years and make crores.
This couple – Yogesh Gautam and his wife Sapna – who run the gang was a flat rental at Officer City.
They have employed three young women for monthly salaries and commissions.
On Friday, they were all captured from flats.
“Because the tariff is high enough to chat on adult sites, the defendant will share whatsapp numbers them.
They will persuade the victims to strip video calls and use clips and images to extort them later,” said Aggarwal.
The Circle Officer (Indirapuram) Abhay Mishra said it was a man from Australia who had given some ideas to the Honeytrap people and extorted them with sex chat images.
The man, Sunny, is a friend of a partner on social media.
“Eight bank accounts have arrived at the investigation.
Of that amount, we have only four accounts details.
Transactions worth RS 4 Crore are done using four accounts that we tracked so far.
We collect information about others,” said Mishra.
Couples and third women have been ordered under the IPC 292 section (sales, etc., from obscene books, items, etc.), 384 (extortion), 406 (criminal violations of trust), 420 (cheating) and 120B (criminal conspiracy )) And the relevant provisions of the IT law.
They are produced in front of a judge and returned in court detention.