The four accused allegedly duped 4,800 people of Rs 8 crore.
The director of a Gurugram-based company along with three others have been arrested and its three bank accounts frozen for allegedly duping 4,800 people by promising them handsome returns.
The director of Profit Network company and three other accused were allegedly involved in an online fraud of Rs 8 crore and were arrested yesterday, a Haryana police spokesperson said.
He said three bank accounts of the company which had about Rs 90 lakh in them had been frozen.
The spokesperson said the accused had been identified as Raj Kumar Sharma, a resident of Surat in Gujarat, Daulat Singh, from Jaipur, Bharat Kumar of Alwar and Ajay of Bhiwani. He said the action has been taken after an FIR was lodged by Vijay Singh of Rewari and Amit Kumar of Sonipat against the company on February 14.
The complainants had become members of the company on January 23 and had transferred Rs 2.5 lakh in its account.
After lodging of the FIR, the police formed a Special Investigation Team and arrested all four accused involved in online fraud, which operated from Rajiv Chowk, Gurugram.
On interrogation, the accused said they started Profit Network in July, 2016, and that it had so far duped about 4,800 people by making them its members, the police added.
The company had asked people to deposit money in its bank account and then it used to send them link of websites. In order to make money, the members had to like the web links sent to them by the company. The company had promised to pay Rs 5 per like, the police said. The members had deposited about Rs 8 crore in the company's bank accounts.
The accused have been charged with cheating and forgery at Badshahpur Police Station. Section 66-D of IT Act (punishment for cheating by personation by using computer resource sections) and other relevant sections of Haryana Protection of Interest of Deposition Act were also added, the police said.