Bhopal: Considered as the hub of cement industries in the country, Satna district in the Vindhya region of Madhya Pradesh is turning out to be a fertile base for mule accounts –which are being used not just to park and move money earned by cyber fraudsters, but also serving as route for transfer of funds of suspected terror financing.
Focused investigations by cyber cell of the MP police based on specific inputs provided by the anti-terror squad (ATS) have led to a massive inter-state racket, which has been opening bank accounts in the name of downtrodden people after promising to credit benefits of various government schemes in those accounts. Two real brothers who are said to be residents of Satna have come to light in the case of transferring crores of rupees to fake accounts. Both the brothers opened 2000 fake accounts in 3 years, in which transactions worth a total of 3000 crores took place.
The accused opened centers in various cities of India such as Satna, Gurgaon, Prayagraj and Jabalpur. These centers are believed to be part of an international gang. In this case, Himanshu died after falling from a hotel in Haryana during the ATS operation on January 7.
Madhya Pradesh ATS had detained 6 youths in Haryana. During this time, the youth died. The family of the youth had accused ATS of murder. Whereas ATS had said that the youth had committed suicide by jumping from the hotel. Himanshu was one of the six accused related to terror funding and cyber crime in Madhya Pradesh, whom the team of Madhya Pradesh ATS was interrogating.
Earlier in December 2024, the MP ATS got the whiff of the mule accounts-aided cyber fraud and suspected terror funding racket, when 16 private security personnel (all from economically weak families) working at a prominent cement factory in Satna district, approached the local police.
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