Assam: Four held in Guwahati for selling bank accounts to hackers
Guwahati: A team of the Assam police arrested four individuals for allegedly creating and selling bank accounts to hackers outside the state.
The accused were identified as Mukhtar Ali, Mustafa Hussain, Mirajul Hussain and Javed Ali.
They were arrested from Hotel Royal in Guwahati's Sijubari area.
This latest crackdown is part of an ongoing investigation into cybercrime, which has led to several previous arrests related to similar crimes.
The accused would create bank accounts in individuals' names, either forcibly or by duping them, and sell them to cyber criminals outside the state.
These accounts were used to launder illegally acquired money, with some being sold to hackers in Dubai for up to Rs 80,000.
The police are now investigating links to cyber criminals operating outside the state who were supplied with these bank accounts.