The Navi Mumbai Crime Branch has busted a 12-member gang allegedly involved in large-scale cyber fraud. The accused purportedly operated an illegal online gaming platform and cheated multiple people through it. During the investigation, the police also discovered that around 393 complaints were registered against the accused on National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (NCCRP). They also found out that the accused used around 886 bank accounts in cybercrime.

During the probe, the police’s cybercrime branch found that the one of the suspects, 22-year-old Isan Usmani Minhaj Sheikh, who is a resident of Sai Niwas Society in Nerul’s Sector 18E, provided multiple bank accounts to the main operators for running the illegal gaming network. Sheikh was arrested from CBD Belapur Railway Station in Navi Mumbai.