Bhubaneswar: A special team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) has reached Bhubaneswar to interrogate arrested Abhijeet Sanjay Jambure, who was alleged in regular touch with some Pakistani intelligence officials for a long time.
The Special Task Force (STF) of Odisha Police had arrested Abhijeet Sanjay Jambure, a software company employee, from Pune, Maharashtra on June 29.
He was produced before local court in Pune and was brought to Bhubaneswar after getting three days transit remand. He is now under four-day police remand.
Abhijeet has done his post graduate in statistics from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University, Anand, Gujarat. He was working in a software company in Pune.
STF SP K K Panigrahi said Abhijeet was in regular touch with two Pakistani Intelligence Officials for a long time. In 2018, he met one Danish @ Syed Danish Ali Naqvi of Khanki, Faisalabad, Pakistan through Facebook messenger, who identified himself as a freelancer at Chegg (an American education technology company).
Abhijeet had shared his user id and password of Chegg to Danish. Danish was working in Chegg on Abhijeet’s identity but the earnings were credited in Abhijeet’s account in India. Against his ‘favour’, Abhijeet had to do some ‘work’ for Danish, he said.
Danish introduced him (Abhijeet) to his friend namely Khurram allies Abdul Hamid of Karachi, Pakistan. Khurram is believed to be a senior Pakistan Army Intelligence Officer having a big base/network of agents in India. And as per instruction of Khurram, he used to transfer money to various PIOs working in India.
Abhijeet also talked with at least seven Pakistan citizens and 10 Nigerian citizens through WhatsApp, said the SP.
Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), Central Intelligence Bureau and STF interrogated Abhijit yesterday. The RAW officials may also question the accused as he was directly in touch with Pakistan agents and Nigerian national.
Earlier, the STF has detected crypto trading worth Rs 1 crore through various Indian and foreign exchanges by two of the accused of the OTP sharing gang.
So far, six persons have been arrested for sharing OTP of pre-activated SIMs to some criminals and suspected Pakistani Agents. The Special Task Force is conducting further investigation to nab other accused who are involved in the scam.