UP STF has arrested the accused.
Greater Noida: The STF Gautam Buddh Nagar team has arrested a Tibetan national from Delhi who had committed cyber fraud by obtaining an Indian passport through fake documents. The accused was living in India by changing his name. The accused used to travel abroad through his Indian passport. He has also committed cyber fraud worth crores in connivance with cyber criminals. He used fake documents and took the Indian name Chandra Thakur and also got a passport made in the same name. According to STF officials, the accused Chhinjo Tharchin alias Chandra Thakur alias Tanzeem was arrested from his flat in Dwarka, Delhi on September 11.
Many documents recovered from Chandra Thakur
According to the STF, a passport, a fake voter ID card, a PAN card, an Aadhar card, two ATM cards, a Cambodian SIM card and two mobile phones have been recovered from him. The STF team has said that for the past few days it was receiving information about foreign nationals preparing Indian citizenship documents through fake documents and making passports etc. STF had called Chandra Thakur, who lives in Dwarka, to its office for questioning. Intensive questioning revealed evidence against the accused of providing bank accounts to foreign nationals for cyber fraud.
At the age of 14 he fled to Tibet
STF also found evidence of accused Chandra Thakur hiding his identity as a Tibetan citizen and preparing fake documents from West Bengal and making a fake passport. After this, he was arrested. According to STF, he fled to Tibet at the age of 14. From there he came to Nepal with a group of 50-60 people and stayed in Kathmandu’s Refugee Center for about 3 months. From there he came to Buddha Vihar Refugee Center in Delhi. After about a month, he started studying in a school in Himachal Pradesh and after studying for 3 years, he fled to Delhi.
Worked in a restaurant for 4 years
After this, Chhinjo Tharchin alias Chandra Thakur worked in various restaurants of Dharamsala and Delhi for 4 years. The accused came and started living in Majnu ka Tila (Delhi) in the year 2008. He started bringing Chinese electronic goods from Nepal and selling them secretly in the markets of Delhi. Gradually, he acquired a good knowledge of the Chinese language as well. In the year 2010-11, after befriending a woman on Facebook, he came to Gangtok (Sikkim) and started working as a cook in a hotel. It was here that he met a boy who ran a hotel in Darjeeling. Then he came to Darjeeling and started living there.
Many fake documents were made in Darjeeling
While living in Darjeeling, he got Aadhar card, voter ID card made on the basis of fake documents in the name of Chandra Thakur. After this, he obtained Indian passport in the year 2013 in the name of Chandra Thakur and traveled to many countries like China, Malaysia, Thailand and Dubai. During the Nepal visit of the accused in the year 2021, he met ‘Li’, a resident of China, in Kathmandu. Li asked him to provide the current account of Indian bank including net banking, which was used in various types of gaming apps, login apps, trading apps.
He also spent about 9 months in jail
The accused had provided an Indian bank account to the Chinese. After a transaction of about Rs 4.5 crore was made in that account, the account holder filed a case in Delhi’s GTB Enclave police station on 9 December 2021. The Tibetan citizen went to jail in this case. He spent about 9 months in jail. After being released from jail, Chhinjo Tharchin met Nandu alias Narendra Yadav, a resident of Dwarka, who was already in touch with the Chinese, who used to provide them Indian accounts after taking money.
26 bank accounts linked to the accused surfaced
Accused Chinjo Tharchin came in contact with Chinese based in Nepal and Sri Lanka and started activating bank accounts of Indian individuals and firms and making them available to his foreign acquaintances, which they were using in cyber crime. During interrogation, about 26 Indian bank accounts linked to the accused have been found, in relation to which a thorough investigation is being conducted. (IANS)
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