Bhubaneswar, March 8 -- Police in Odisha's Malkangiri district have unearthed an interstate online betting racket, arresting four scammers, including two kingpins from Chhattisgarh's Raipur city.
Police, after verifying 142 mule accounts, found that some of those accounts were created by middlemen belonging to the Kotpad area in Odisha with the false promise of MGNREGA payments into the accounts of innocent citizens.
"These multiple bank accounts, passbooks, and mobile numbers were collected and couriered, and transported to the network operating in Raipur," police said.
Delving deep into the fraudulent networks, Malkangiri police have arrested four persons, including two kingpins of the racket from Raipur, and brought them on police rem...