Elvish Yadav and Bharti Singh
Delhi Police has issued summons against YouTuber Elvish Yadav and comedian Bharti Singh and three other social media influencers. It is alleged that social media influencer and YouTuber promoted Hibox mobile app on their page. This app has defrauded people to the tune of Rs 500 crore. An official gave this information on Thursday. The officer said the police received more than 500 complaints alleging that several social media influencers and YouTubers promoted the Hibox mobile app on their pages and lured people to invest through the app. Police officials said that the main accused in the case, Shivaram (30), resident of Chennai, has been arrested. According to the complaint, social media influencers and YouTubers including Saurav Joshi, Abhishek Malhan, Purav Jha, Elvish Yadav, Bharti Singh, Harsh Limbachiya, Lakshya Chaudhary, Adarsh ​​Singh, Amit and Dilraj Singh Rawat promoted the app and lured people through the app. Induced to invest.
People were defrauded of lakhs of rupees with planning
Deputy Commissioner of Police (IFSO Special Cell) Hemant Tiwari said, ‘Hibox is a mobile app which was part of a planned fraud.’ The DCP said that through this app, the accused had promised guaranteed returns of one to five per cent per day, which would have increased to 30 to 90 per cent in a month. The app was launched in February 2024. More than 30,000 people invested money through the app. Investors got high returns during the initial five months. However, from July the app stopped payments citing technical glitches, legal issues, GST issues.
DCP Tiwari said, ‘The alleged companies disappeared after closing their offices in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.’ Police officials said that the mastermind of the fraud, Shivram, has been arrested and Rs 18 crore has been seized from his four different bank accounts. Police received complaints from 29 victims against the Hibox app at the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) on August 16. The complainants alleged that they were promised high returns on their investments. The Special Cell registered an FIR on August 20 under various sections of the Indian Justice Code and relevant provisions of the Information Technology Act. During the investigation, multiple complaints were filed against the Hibox app by nine people who were similarly defrauded.
Police took action after more than 500 complaints
These nine cases were handed over to IFSO. Police received more than 500 complaints from North-East District, Outer District, Shahdara and ‘National Cybercrime Reporting Portal’. The DCP said, ‘Our team collected details of payment gateways and bank accounts involved in the fraud. Analysis of the transactions helped the team identify four accounts which were used to withdraw the defrauded funds. Police officials said that till date 127 complaints have been clubbed together and the role of Ezebuzz and PhonePe is being investigated as the business accounts of the fraudsters operating Hibox were closed without following the proper verification process and RBI. (RBI) were opened bypassing the prescribed norms.
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