A 33-year-old man, Muneer Khan alias Sahil Sharma, was arrested following a raid at Gurugram’s IT Park for allegedly running a fake manpower recruitment company involved in a large-scale cyber fraud, officials said on Sunday.
Khan, a resident of Asoti village in Haryana’s Palwal district, is linked to 85 cybercrime complaints across India. The case originated from a theft complaint on May 22, where the victim’s stolen iPhone was connected to their bank account. After the accused obtained a duplicate SIM card on May 26, the complainant received alerts for nine unauthorized UPI transactions totaling Rs 3.98 lakh.
An FIR was filed, leading to an investigation. Police discovered that Rs 1 lakh from the fraud was transferred to an account in Telangana and then routed to another account under the name of Meraaki Manpower Services Private Limited. KYC checks revealed that the registered address of this company had been vacated.
Persistent surveillance uncovered the company’s actual operations in Gurugram, resulting in Khan’s arrest. Khan, a Class 12 graduate, had previously spent four and a half years in judicial custody following a rape case in Uttam Nagar.
Khan allegedly operated the manpower firm with associates Shubham, Mukim, and Munjir to launder cybercrime proceeds through multiple current accounts opened under the company’s name. During the raid, police recovered 200 cheques from four banks and four debit cards linked to suspicious fraud-related accounts.
Data from the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (NCRP) connects the company’s accounts to 85 cybercrime complaints nationwide involving large sums. The investigation into the full extent of fraudulent transactions and efforts to apprehend Khan’s associates are ongoing.
