TN Engineer Joins Chinese Cybercrime Syndicate, Arrested For Duping Japanese Professor
Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu: Vigneshwar Muruganandham, a 30-year-old unemployed man from Tamil Nadu’s Tiruchirappalli, desperate for a luxury life and high-paying job, ended up in a cybercrime syndicate, which later led to his arrest last week. The accused, whose father was a retired government employee, allegedly joined a Chinese cybercrime syndicate in Cambodia and was nabbed for duping a Japanese professor through digital arrest for six hours.
Muruganandham reportedly amassed significant wealth earning commissions from his service before being arrested by the police. After detaining the accused, South West Delhi Police Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Surendra Chaudhary informed that Muruganandham collaborated with a Chinese national running cyber camps in Cambodia.
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His association with the scam network, at first, had happened accidentally when he joined a group from China that promised lucrative job opportunity. His engagement with the cybercrime syndicate started in April 2024 when the Chinese contacts he met online recruited him, offering promising rewards to work with the company. After the group sent him the ticket, the man arrived in China in April, taking with him an array of Indian bank accounts, which they had asked him to open, reported Times of India.
After reaching to China, initially, the man thought everything was legitimate. But as days passed, he realised that he was part of something outside the laws. His employers used the Indian bank accounts for financial transactions without letting him know the amount being shared, making him feel like a child in a large network.
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The workers, according to Muruganandham, were trained to answer as legitimate employees when questioned. During the police interrogation, the Indian man disclosed how the group operated as a sophisticated cybercrime network targeting India and neighboring nations. The workers were closely monitored and assigned tasks based on their expertise. However, after noticing similar operations being advertised in Telegram channels, the Muruganandham left for India and allegedly began supplying bank accounts to the similar cybercrime networks in Cambodia, earning big from the commissions.
The revelation assumes significance, especially at a time when several incidents regarding increased digital crime using sophisticated methods are being reported. Many in the recent times have lost crores to the digital arrest, and the latest probe has highlighted the expanded networks of such crimes, stressing the need for international attention to prevent the prevent recurrence of such financial crimes.
