BHOPAL: Questioning of Abdul Jabbar, a 62-year-old resident of Delhi and two men from the state by the ATS of the Madhya Pradesh police has bared a triple layered Pakistani ISI operations in the country.
Three men, including Jabbar, Satna’s Rajjan Tiwari and Chhattarpur’s Sanyog Singh, who are presently in the ATS custody, have made startling revelations about three channels of Pak handlers working in India.
According to sources privy to investigations, three desks of Pak handlers (ISI) were managing spies, Chinese SIM box phone exchanges and their agents like Rajjan Tiwari and Balram, who worked as fund clearing houses for spies.
The communication desk
The first channel (communication channel) managed the operations of the Chinese SIM box exchanges, more than 30 of which have been busted in UP and MP since January this year.
Using five VoIP gateways, the Pak handlers guided the SIM box exchanges operators on converting international net calls into local calls at cheap rates causing immense loss to the telecom industry as a
whole. The exchange operators, including ruling BJP leader Dhruv Saxena (among 11 men arrested on February 9), earned sums ranging between Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1.5 lakh monthly which was paid to them by Pak handlers via hawala racket, sources added.
The MP ATS has located 90-plus such exchanges across India and shared inputs with security agencies. Eight more such SIM box exchanges were busted in Jabalpur on Monday and three men arrested.
These exchanges were used by Pak handlers to run a racket of online fraud which duped commoners in India with quick prize money and made them deposit huge sums in 250-plus bank accounts of Satna and Rewa districts run by Rajjan Tiwari and Balram.
The funding desk
The money deposited in these accounts was immediately withdrawn by Rajjan and Balram and transferred in some other accounts, which were managed by Balram’s relative Sanyog Singh in Delhi. “Both Rajjan and Balram helped the Pak handlers park around Rs 10 crores in the bank accounts of Satna and Rewa over last two years,” a source connected to the ongoing probe told.
The spying desk
The online fraud money transferred from accounts in Satna and Rewa to accounts managed by Sanyog in Delhi was subsequently withdrawn by Sanyog and given to Jama Masjid, Delhi resident Abdul Jabbar, who is into export-import of garments with clients, who include handlers in Pakistan, sent the money to identified Pak spies in various parts of India, including J&K via a hawala racket. Also, he astutely used over and under invoicing of sales while exporting clothes to Pakistan using money generated by Pak handlers via online fraud.
The garments exported to Pakistan were subsequently sold in Pak market and proceeds of sale shared with Jabbar by Pak handlers, akin to sharing of profits between two exporters and importers.
“Pak handlers were indulging in duping our citizens through online fraud and using the money so earned via agents like Balram, Rajjan Tiwari, Sanyog Singh and Jabbar not only to fund spying in India but also pumping part of the money into Pak economy via export-import trade,” said the source, adding that all these details have already been shared with higher ups in India’s national security apparatus.
Two hawala channels operational
Probe based on the questioning of the arrested trio has revealed two hawala channels in operation, first routing earnings to phone exchange operators
and second one funding spying. Also, all stakeholders, spanning from phone exchange operators like Dhruv Saxena to fund clearing houses like Balram and Rajjan, besides Delhi man Jabbar were fully aware of being part of the clandestine operations by Pak handlers just in return for commissions ranging between 5 to 10 per cent of every transaction or internet call.
Two ISI agents sent to police, judicial remands
Alleged ISI agent Rajan Tiwari has been sent to judicial remand while Manoj Mandal has been sent to police remand on Tuesday.
Both were produced in district court. Tiwari was produced in court after his police remand expired on Tuesday and he has been sent to judicial remand till February 27. Mandal, who was arrested in Bihar in connection with link to ISI, was produced in the court, has been sent to police remand till February 23.
