{"id":19538,"date":"2021-06-28T14:17:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T14:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=19538"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:09:13","slug":"india-3-arrested-for-online-gambling-and-cash-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-3-arrested-for-online-gambling-and-cash-fraud","title":{"rendered":"India: 3 arrested for online gambling and cash fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Officers have arrested three people for alleged involvement in online gambling and cash fraud in Karimpur, Nadia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>India.-\u00a0<strong>Police in India<\/strong>\u00a0have arrested three people for alleged involvement in\u00a0<strong>online gambling and cash fraud operations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police <strong>seized 800 SIM cards and several Paytm barcodes<\/strong>\u00a0during a raid on a venue located in Karimpur, Nadia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Telegraph India, those arrested have admitted their<strong>\u00a0links to online gambling associates<\/strong>\u00a0operating from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers said: \u201cThe trio said<strong>\u00a0they had cheated innocent people of their credit or debit card details<\/strong>\u00a0and card verification values by posing as bank officials.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: \u201cThe group admins refer to websites, on which group members can play games and place bets. To skip the surveillance of Indian authorities,\u00a0<strong>domains of these sites are generally located in China<\/strong>\u00a0and payments are routed through India-based gateways like Paytm.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The benefit remittances are usually transferred to several linked bank accounts to avoid scanners of income tax.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A week ago, police in the state of Telangana arrested\u00a0<strong>thirteen people\u00a0<\/strong>who were\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/india-13-arrested-over-illegal-gambling\">playing three-card gambling<\/a>\u00a0at a private property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among those arrested was the&nbsp;<strong>Telangana state labour minister\u2019s brother<\/strong>, Ch Narasimha Reddy, a businessman aged 66.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Times of India, police seized Rs 1.4 lakh cash. Those arrested were also accused of breaking the current Covid-19 social distancing rules imposed by the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers have arrested three people for alleged involvement in online gambling and cash fraud in Karimpur, Nadia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Indian authorities have arrested three individuals in Karimpur, Nadia, for alleged involvement in online gambling and cash fraud, seizing 800 SIM cards and Paytm barcodes. The operation involved posing as bank officials to acquire card details, utilizing China-based gambling domains, and routing illicit payments through Indian gateways like Paytm to evade tax surveillance. Separately, thirteen individuals, including a state minister's brother, were arrested in Telangana for offline gambling and violating Covid-19 social distancing protocols.","focusai_entities":"Paytm, Telegraph India, Times of India, Ch Narasimha Reddy","focusai_location":"India, Karimpur, Nadia, China, Telangana","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.7), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.95), investor_analyst (0.7), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Paytm?","query":"What specific measures will payment gateways like Paytm implement to mitigate their platforms being exploited for illicit gambling transactions and tax evasion, and what regulatory pressures might arise?"},{"label":"Cross-border enforcement?","query":"How will Indian and Chinese authorities enhance cross-border cooperation to dismantle online gambling networks that leverage international domains and local payment infrastructure for fraud?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16334],"tags":[229,4138],"class_list":["post-19538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-asia-news","tag-gambling","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19561,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538\/revisions\/19561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}