Prayagraj: STF nabs four for running illegal online betting racket
PRAYAGRAJ, Aug. 12 -- The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has arrested four alleged members of an organised gang accused of running an illegal online gaming and betting racket through the website 'rolexpanel.win', officials said on Tuesday.
A team of the STF's Prayagraj field unit arrested the four from the Meja area on Monday night, said Shailesh Pratap Singh, deputy superintendent of police, STF Prayagraj field unit.
The accused have been identified as Brijesh Kumar Singh alias Titu, 26, of Shambhupur village in Meja; Abhishek Kumar, 20, of Dilbagh Colony, Varanasi; Prince Kumar alias Gautam, 20, of Uruwa in Meja; and Mitesh Pradhan, 26, of Raigarh in Chhattisgarh.
The STF seized a laptop, tablet, eight smartphones, 24 packed SIM cards, four activated SIM cards, five SIM cards concealed in paper slips, UPI QR-code stickers and stands, sound boxes, 13 debit and credit cards, three Aadhaar cards, an optical fingerprint scanner, a Jio AirFiber set, three registers and Rs.23,000 in cash. Screenshots related to online gaming and betting were also recovered, Singh said.
According to STF officials, the gang had been operating the betting platform for several months. Its members allegedly procured multiple SIM cards, activated them using forged documents and opened bank accounts and UPI IDs in the names of other people to route transactions.
The accused allegedly used multiple mobile phones to carry out transactions and shared screenshots of successful transactions with an online gaming administrator group on WhatsApp. When a SIM card was blocked or suspicious activity was detected, they allegedly switched to another number and deleted the WhatsApp group, officials said.
The gang allegedly earned money through betting on games hosted on the rolexpanel platform and routed the proceeds through multiple bank accounts, the STF said.
A case has been registered at Meja police station under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Information Technology Act. Further legal proceedings are underway, officials said....
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