Haryana: Haryana Police has arrested YouTuber Bobby Kataria. He is accused of taking lakhs of rupees from two youths of UP in the name of jobs and sending them abroad and taking them hostage there to a Chinese company. Both the youths allege that they were held hostage there and forced to commit cyber fraud with the American people.
They were beaten up and their passports were snatched away. Somehow the youth escaped from there taking advantage of the opportunity and after reaching the Indian Embassy came back to India.
The victimized youth allege that about 150 Indians were brought to the company where they were held hostage in a similar manner through human trafficking. They also include women, who have been sent by others like Bobby Kataria on the pretext of jobs.
Kataria was embroiled in controversy after smoking a cigarette inside the flight.
In the complaint given to Haryana’s Bajgheda police station, Arun Kumar, a resident of Fatehpur in UP, and Manish Tomar, a resident of Hapur, said that they were unemployed. They were in touch with YouTuber Bobby Kataria on Instagram at their respective levels. He saw an advertisement for a job abroad on Bobby’s YouTube channel MBK. After this he contacted Bobby.
The victims said that Bobby called them to his office in Sector-109 on the pretext of getting them a job abroad. He told us to meet at Constant One Mall. The victim told that Arun Kumar met Bobby Kataria in his office on 1 February 2024. He got himself registered for Rs 2,000.
After this, on Bobby’s request, on February 13, Rs 50,000 was transferred to his office account MBK Global Visa Private Limited. Then, on the request of Kataria, on March 14, another Rs 1 lakh was transferred to the account of a person named Ankit Shaukeen. Bobby sent the ticket to Vientiane (Laos) through Shaukeen’s WhatsApp.
After this, on March 28, as per Bobby’s advice, he got Rs 50,000 changed into US dollars at the airport and boarded the flight. Similarly, lakhs of rupees were taken from his friend Manish Tomar in the name of sending him to Singapore, but he was also sent on a flight to Vientiane.
When both of them landed at the airport, they met a young man named Abhi. He introduced himself as Bobby’s friend and Pakistani agent. He dropped them off at the Hotel Mican San. The next day, Abhi got him a ticket for Navatui train and made him sit in the train.
From Navatui station, Abhi took a taxi to Golden Triangle, where he met young men named Ankit Shaukeen and Nitish Sharma alias Rocky. They took him to an anonymous Chinese company. There both the friends were severely beaten and their passports were snatched away. They were forced to commit cyber fraud with the American people.
Both were threatened that if the work was not done as per their wish then they would not be able to reach India. Will be killed here. About 150 Indians were brought into that company through human trafficking. However, somehow the youth ran away from there.
CIA-10 incharge Pramod Kumar has said that a complaint was lodged today in Bajgheda police station, on which a case has been registered and the CIA team has arrested Bobby Kataria.