Kumar said the illegal software, ANMS, bypasses IRCTC's login captcha, booking captcha and bank OTP to generate tickets.įor a genuine user, the booking process usually takes around 2.55 minutes, but for the software it takes around 1.48 minutes, thereby booking tickets much faster. He received around ₹13 lakh from Mustafa recently through bank transfers involving 71 transactions," the RPF DG said. He uses Yugoslavian number and VPN (virtual private network). "He is higher up the pecking order of the gang and a technical expert. The investigators are now trying to apprehend another person of interest who is called "Guruji" by the organisation who appears to be involved in the finance management of the gang. About ₹10-15 crore black money is generated per month in cash through this," he said. Roughly 20,000 agents are there in India who use the illegal software for booking. They forward the IDs and software to agents. "One panel is a set of 20 IDs bought with ₹28,000 per month. Then there are around 200-300 panel sellers who buy the software panel from lead developers and forward it to agents. He has 18-20 lead sellers or super admins in India who handle the money and send to Hamid through various hawala accounts and crypto currency, Kumar said. All the information gathered from them has indicated a link to terror financing and money laundering," he said.ĭescribing the operation, the DG said Ashraf is suspected to have a technical team to maintain the cloud-hosted servers. Once that money is amassed, then they turn towards terror financing. "The first aim of these organised rackets is to generate cash. The RPF chief named Hamid Ashraf as the mastermind of the racket which is suspected to generate revenue of ₹10-15 crore per month.Īshraf, who is also a software developer, was involved in the bombing of a school in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district in 2019 and is now suspected to have fled to Dubai, Kumar said. Mustafa's digital footprints were found on government websites, he said. The DG said analysis of Mustafa's laptops, which were highly encrypted, revealed that he is a follower of a Pakistan-based religious group.
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