The police of Jharkhand’s Ranchi cyber station, which reached Muzaffarpur in Bihar, has arrested Shashi Shankar Kumar alias Vicky Kumar (36), the mastermind of fraud of more than one crore rupees on the pretext of making him rich through crypto currency. He was arrested from his residence located in Triloki Nath Mandir street of Soda Godown Chowk of Brahmapura police station area of the city. He had lured hundreds of people with the lure of 300 percent profit by investing in crypto currency.
Ranchi cyber station police took action in Bihar
During the raid, Ranchi Cyber Police station also seized half a dozen mobile phones, laptops and many other devices. After interrogating him by bringing him to Brahmapura police station, Ranchi police presented him in the court. From where she left for Ranchi with him on 24-hour transit remand. According to Jharkhand Police, businessman Santosh Kumar, resident of Adarsh Colony Chas of Chas police station, Bokaro, had filed the named FIR on November 9, 2023. Apart from Shashi Shankar, his another associate Amit Kumar Jaiswal of Janakpuri, Delhi was made an accused. Based on this, Ranchi Cyber Police raided Brahmapura on Saturday morning and arrested mastermind Shashi Shankar Kumar alias Vicky Kumar. After his arrest, various kinds of discussions are taking place in the city. Ranchi Cyber Police official said that the action is still going on. Can tell anything only after completion.
Gave information about working in film industry abroad, used to come home by flight
Mastermind Shashi Shankar Kumar alias Vicky, who was caught by Ranchi Cyber Police, was aware of the people in his locality and among his friends that he worked in the film industry. He remains abroad every day due to shooting. Every six months or a year, whenever he came or went home, he used to come by flight. He used to tell people that he has to go to Dubai, London, Paris and Japan every six months.
Was running the network from home for seven months, had set up an office in the room.
After receiving the news of the arrest of Shashi Shankar alias Vicky, one of his elderly female relatives reached the city police station in search of him. The woman said that Vicky used to work in films abroad, so why did the police arrest him and take him away. He has not been caught in the fight that took place in the locality last month over a land dispute. But, when the policeman present at the police station said that she had been caught by the Ranchi Cyber Police, she started crying. The woman said that he had made an office in a room inside the house. He did not allow anyone to come or go in that room. The laptop was always on. On it, a graph like line was seen moving up and down. He has not given any information about this to anyone. Was living at home for the last seven months.
The promise of giving 300 percent more profit used to lure people into such a trap.
Shashi Shankar Kumar alias Vicky used to trap people by promising to give 300 percent more profit on the amount invested in 17 months by investing in crypto currency. After investing the money, on the lines of chain marketing, the people trapped in the trap also invested money from their acquaintances and relatives. After this, these miscreants used to close down the site through which money was deposited and abscond.
Case was registered in Ranchi cyber police station
In the FIR registered on November 9, 2023 in the Cyber Police Station of Ranchi, Santosh Kumar, resident of Adarsh Colony Chas, Chas Police Station, Bokaro, Jharkhand, had told that he had met Shashi Shankar Kumar alias Vicky Kumar in Gurgaon, Haryana four years ago. Had done gold bond business with him for two years. During this he said that now the gold bond business will not continue in the market for long. After this, accused Shashi Shankar Kumar reached his residence in January 2021 taking another person with him. He identified the person he brought with him as Amit Jaiswal. He said that they are associate partners in his new business Crypto. Their office is running in Balidih police station area in Bokaro itself. It is a London based company. Its website is www.oropay.io.in.
Took me into such a trap..
Shashi Shankar described Amit Jaiswal as the India head of this company. He said that this company trades in crypto currency with the help of Artificial Intelligence. This company works at many levels. This is directly linked to the stock exchange. He said that the money invested in it will be converted into Tron Crypto which is an international crypto currency and the foreign currency will be converted into rupees. Both of them promised him that if a person invests in Oropay.io then he will get 300 percent more money after 13 to 17 months. This is a two type plan. Apart from this, both of them gave information about many other plans. By luring him in various ways, both the cunning people trapped him. Earlier he had worked with Shashi Shankar Kumar. Because of this, under his influence, he agreed to invest money in crypto currency. Also prepared others to join it.
Added dozens of people, used to give instructions through zoom meeting
He added dozens of people including Gopal Prajapati, Pratha Sarathi Dhar, Harshit Prasad, Ranjit Kumar Mandal, Rajesh Tana Bhagat, Vinod Satyarthi, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Sanjay Kumar Paswan, Rajendra Mahato, Inderjit Mukherjee and Jitendra Kumar Yadav. Money was invested in an artificial intelligence based scheme. After this, he started adding new people to all the people he had connected. In July 2021, Orope launched a token named DGFI. After this, both the accused held a meeting through Zoom and talked about selling it to the public as well. He said that it has to be developed on the lines of Bitcoin.
Website closed after fraud worth crores
This Oropay.io stopped working after 2022 after defrauding the market in the name of investing more than one crore rupees. When asked by both the accused, they told that the company has been shifted to Block Pay name. After a few days, he assured everyone about the maintenance. After this they absconded.