Nagpur: The city police have filed a chargesheet of staggering 4,500 pages against on-line gaming fraudster Sontu alias Ananth Navratan Jain for duping businessmanVikrant Agrawal of Rs 58 crore. A police official said that the chargesheet with 4,500 pages was filed on Monday which contains the modus operandi of Sontu’s on-line fraud, his network, bank account details, money transactions from bank account of Agrawal to Sontu’s bank accounts, details of Cyber forensic reports, evidences including his call logs, call recordings, and others.
The investigation into this online gaming fraud case commenced when Agrawal filed a complaint, alleging that he had been defrauded of a staggering Rs 58 crore by the gaming platform. Agrawal claimed that the gaming results had been manipulated, resulting in substantial financial losses for him. As part of their investigative efforts, the police conducted several raids; On July 22, the police raided Sontu’s residence in Gondia, where they seizedRs 17 crore in cash, 14 kg of gold, and 294 kg of silver, witha combined worth of Rs 27crore.
Sontu was in jail after courtordered in magesterial custodyin the first FIR lodged againsthim. The second FIR was lodged against Sontu Jain forhatching conspiracy with Dr Bagga, Khandelwal and Kothari. They devised a plan that involved opening threenew lockers in Dr GauravBagga’s name in the same branch of Axis Bankin Gondia and transferredcrores of rupees and gold fromthe Jain family lockers to then ewly established lockers of Dr Bagga.
After successfully moving the gold and cash into DrBagga’s lockers, Khandelwal and Dr Bagga handed the valuables to Kothari July 30. OnOctober 20, the City police raided the house of Dr Bagga andseized 3 kilograms of gold, found from a well, and Rs 1.35crore in cash
