Bhubaneswar: A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from Mumbai has arrived in Bhubaneswar on Monday afternoon to question the accused, Abhijeet Sanjay Jambure, in the very-sensitive OTP sharing scam case.
The NIA team led by an Inspector-rank officer reached Bhubaneswar airport at around 1.10 pm.n After reaching the NIA officer here, the team including the investigation officer of the case is questioning the accused to elicit information about his links with Pakistani Intelligence Operatives, informed STF SP, KK Panigrahi.
The Special Task Force of Odisha Police had on 1st July 2023 arrested Abhijeet Sanjay Jambure from Pune over his involvement in an international criminal syndicate and sharing of OTP with Pakistani Intelligence Operatives. is a Statistics Graduate from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University, Gujarat, was also working in WIPRO Pune. Jambure has been accused of keeping contact with Pakistani intelligence and Army officers for the last several years.
According to STF, Jambure, a resident of Satara district of Maharashtra, is a Post Graduate in Statistics from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University, Ananda, Gujarat. He was working in WIPRO (a Software company) in Pune. He was in regular touch with two Pakistani Intelligence/ Pakistani Army Intelligence Officials for long.
In 2018, he met One Danish alias Syed Danish Ali Naqvi of Khanki, Faislabad, Pakistan through Facebook messenger, who identified himself as a Freelancer at “Chegg” (“Chegg is an American education technology company). Abhijeet had shared his User ID and Password of “Chegg” to Danish. Danish was working (solving problem/ questions etc.) in Chegg on Abhijeet’s identity but the earning was credited in Abhijeet’s account in India. However to return this “favour”, Abhijeet had to do some “work” for Danish.
Danish introduced him to his friend namely Khurram alias Abdul Hamid of Karachi, Pakistan. Khurram is believed to be a senior Pakistan Army intelligence officer having big base/ network of agents in India. And as per the instruction of Khurram, he used to transfer money to various PIOs working in India. Abhijeet also talked with at least 7 Pakistani citizens and 10 Nigerian Citizens through WhatsApp.
On the other hand, the accused Abhijeet has revealed that he sent Rs 550 to Pathanisamant Lena once. However, he refuted his links with Pakistan Intelligence Operatives and termed the allegations baseless.
Earlier five accused— Pathanisamant Lenka, Saroj Kumar Nayak, Soumya Pattanaik, Pradyumna Kumar Sahoo and Pritam Kar were arrested in this case on the charges of selling and sharing OTP with some criminals and anti-national elements.
The gang members were doing this illegal business of sharing OTPs, selling mule accounts/pre-activated digital wallets to cyber criminals including PIO/ISI agents since 2017.
