The ED’s Jalandhar Zonal Office has filed a charge sheet against five individuals in connection with a money laundering investigation related to industrialist S.P. Oswal’s digital arrest fraud case. The accused, including Rumi Kalita, Arpit Rathore, Anand Chaudhary, Atanu Chaudhary, and M/s Frozenman Warehousing & Logistics, are named in the complaint.
The ED’s probe, initiated based on an FIR by the Cyber Crime Police Station in Ludhiana, uncovered that fraudsters posing as CBI officers extorted Rs 7 crore from Oswal during the digital arrest. The illicit funds were channeled into the accounts of M/s Rigglo Ventures Private Limited and M/s Frozenman Warehousing & Logistics, controlled by Kalita and Rathore.
Further investigations revealed that proceeds from multiple cybercrime cases were funneled into the account of M/s Frozenman Warehousing & Logistics. The accused allegedly utilized an APK application named ‘AMMFORWARD’ to facilitate the movement of the illicit funds and engaged in trade-based money laundering to transfer the money abroad.
