Dani Data app scam amounted to Rs. 3.5 crore, not Rs. 1400 crore; Accused never visited Gujarat: Police

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Police today issued a clarification regarding the false media reports claiming a “fraud amounting to ₹1400 crore through the football betting app named ‘Dani Data'”.

In a press statement, the Gujarat Police stated that investigations by the CID revealed that a total of 1,175 people lost ₹3.5 crore in this app fraud.

The alleged scam is not worth ₹1400 crores but of ₹3,54,64,828 rupees. In connection with this, the police have frozen ₹16,60,76,746 rupees across 620 accounts.

The Police have also clarified that the accused Chinese national involved in this case, namely Wu Choumbo, was residing in India from 2017 to 2019, but he never visited Gujarat for even once in this period. After 2019, he returned to China and did not come back. The alleged scam occurred between December 2021 and June 2022 when the Chinese man was not in India. A red corner notice was issued against him through INTERPOL after the scam came to light.

The police have arrested 10 individuals so far in connection with this scam, and the investigation is ongoing. Complaints were also lodged against the app operators in other states, including Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Bihar, for defrauding individuals, the police added. DeshGujarat