A 25-year-old man has been arrested for cheating people of their money by skimming or cloning their credit and debit cards before transferring the stolen money to Dubai in the form of ‘bitcoins’, a payment mode not authorised in India. Pankaj Bhardwaj was nabbed near the India Gate on Monday in a joint operation by the Delhi Police’s crime branch and their Mumbai counterparts.
Police said members of this racket are spread across Dubai, Delhi, Mumbai, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh and other States. The gang members would allegedly withdraw money from the accounts of unsuspecting people before transferring the money to one Sumair Sheikh in Dubai via hawala channels. —Staff Reporter