{"id":113356,"date":"2025-09-02T04:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T04:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113356\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T04:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T04:07:07","slug":"5-held-in-nuh-for-supplying-mule-accounts-to-cyber-fraud-gangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/113356\/","title":{"rendered":"5 held in Nuh for supplying mule accounts to cyber fraud gangs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Published on: Sept 02, 2025 05:26 am IST <\/p>\n<p>    Investigation revealed that the accused were sourcing mule accounts and fake SIM cards from Nagpur, Maharashtra and supplying them to cybercriminals operating from Nuh, said police.     <\/p>\n<p>Five suspected members of an interstate gang were held in Nuh on Sunday night for allegedly supplying mule account kits and SIM cards to cybercriminals operating in the district, police said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Recovered-kits-of-the-mule-accounts-were-opened-wi_1756752235227.jpg\" alt=\"Recovered kits of the mule accounts were opened with the public sector and private sector banks in Nagpur.\" title=\"Recovered kits of the mule accounts were opened with the public sector and private sector banks in Nagpur.\"\/>   Recovered kits of the mule accounts were opened with the public sector and private sector banks in Nagpur.    <\/p>\n<p>The accused were identified as Mohammad Aftab, 23, Ejaz Khan, 22, Akhlakh, 25, Mohammad Ajmul, 21, Mohammad Shahzad, 26, and Mohammad Sahid, 22. Police said that over three dozen mule account kits including debit cards, SIM cards used for fraud calls were seized from their possession.<\/p>\n<p>Krishan Kumar, public relations officer of Nuh police said that Shahzad and Sahid were first arrested from near Jaisinghpur flyover, while the others were later nabbed from various locations in the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has come to light that the accused were sourcing mule accounts and fake SIM cards from Nagpur, Maharashtra and supplying them to cybercriminals operating from Nuh,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kumar said that the suspects\u2019 associates were based in Nagpur, Maharashtra who were responsible for opening or arranging mule accounts, their kits and SIM cards activated on the basis of fraudulent documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe accused used to procure these items from Nagpur and then bring them to Nuh for supply to key members of cyber crime gangs involved in duping people from across India,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kumar said that the recovered kits of the mule accounts were opened with the public sector and private sector banks in Nagpur. \u201cInterrogation of the accused led to identification of at least eight more associates involved in procuring or purchasing mule accounts and fraudulently issued SIM cards from various areas of Maharashtra,\u201d he said, adding raids were on to arrest them.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756608069_248_story_trending@2x.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/>                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on: Sept 02, 2025 05:26 am IST Investigation revealed that the accused were sourcing mule accounts and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,63906,63904,63908,63907,63905,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-113356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cybercriminals","11":"tag-mule-account-kits","12":"tag-nagpur","13":"tag-nuh","14":"tag-sim-cards","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}