Chandigarh: A cyber crook from Uttar Pradesh, who duped thousands of investors by promising high returns from forex trading on digital platforms, was sent to nine days’ custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Chandigarh zone, for questioning by a Special PMLA court, an official said on Friday.

Navab Hassan was arrested by the ED on Thursday under PMLA, 2002, for his role in misleading innocent investors and mobilising public deposits to launder Proceeds of Crime (POC) through the QFX/ YFX/ BotBro/ BotAlpha/ Crossaplha/ Minecrypto scam, the official said.

The ED initiated an investigation into the matter on the basis of multiple FIRs registered across Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Assam, under various sections of IPC, 1860, indicating that this pyrami

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