Industrialist’s digital arrest: ED apprehends 1, searches 11 sites | India News
NEW DELHI: In a money laundering case related to digital arrest of well-known industrialist and CMD of Ludhiana-based Oswal group, SP Oswal, ED has carried out searches across five states, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Assam, at 11 locations and arrested one Rumi Kalita from Kamrup in Assam.Kalita was brought from Kamrup to Jalandhar, where the case is being probed, and has been remanded to ED custody till January 2. ED claimed she was controlling all bank accounts in which Rs 7 crore extorted from Oswal industries CMD was transferred. After the searches on Dec 22, officials seized several key evidence linking the accused to several other cases of online frauds.
It was found that amounts cheated from victims were immediately diverted by a group of persons to various mule accounts and credentials of those accounts were being used by one Rumi Kalita in lieu of certain percentage of cheated money to be given to her as her share. “During the digital arrest of SP Oswal, fraudsters impersonated as officers of CBI, and by using forged official and judicial documents, forced him to transfer Rs 7 crore in various accounts, out of which Rs 5.24 crore have been recovered and returned to Oswal,” ED said.
