Transnational Web: Human Trafficking and Cyber Fraud Exposed

The NIA has attached properties linked to Anand Kumar Singh for committing transnational human trafficking and cyber fraud. Singh trafficked Indian youths to Cambodia under false pretenses, where they were forced into scams. Their properties were deemed illegal proceeds by a Patna court and ordered confiscated.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken significant action against a transnational human trafficking and cyber fraud scheme by attaching two properties linked to Anand Kumar Singh, officials revealed on Wednesday.

Authorities identified a flat in Thane, Maharashtra, and land in Siwan, Bihar, purchased in Singh's wife's name, as illegal assets funded through such illicit activities. A Patna court confirmed the assets were acquired from human trafficking proceeds and mandated their attachment.

Singh, an Indian expatriate in Cambodia, led a syndicate that deceptively recruited vulnerable Indian youths with false job promises, only to confiscate their passports and sell them into forced scam operations abroad, according to the NIA. The agency is committed to dismantling this large-scale criminal network.

(With inputs from agencies.)