IPS officer faces bribery charge, Chhattisgarh DGP submits report in CBI court
The Chhattisgarh Director General of Police, Arun Dev Gautam, submitted a report to a Delhi court concerning allegations that IPS officer Rahul Bansal and two others accepted bribes to conceal a multi-crore cyber fraud. Bansal denies the accusations, stating that the allegations are "baseless." The case stems from a Rs 21.15 lakh cyber fraud incident at Ambikapur Cyber Police Station in Chhattisgarh, where a man claimed to have lost money in 84 transactions through two fake trading platforms.
Bansal, a 2022-batch IPS officer, led the investigation, which ultimately led to the arrest of 23 individuals in a multi-state, internationally-operated cyber-fraud network. The complainant approached the court after the Chhattisgarh Police and CBI failed to act. The investigation uncovered an alleged network with 38 fake trading portals, 19,340 users, and mule bank accounts.
The network allegedly moved proceeds through hawala and cryptocurrency to overseas destinations, with cryptocurrency-linked transactions surpassing Rs 1,880 crore in four months.
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