BETTIAH, June 18 -- Five cyber criminals were arrested in East Champaran district on Monday evening for allegedly duping people across various states and laundering the extorted money through cryptocurrency trading, police said. Superintendent of Police (SP) Swarn Prabhat said the arrests were made based on inputs provided by another cyber criminal, Dipanshu Pandey, during an investigation by the Cyber Police Station in Motihari. "The arrested accused confessed to being part of an organised gang involved in cyber frauds targeting people in multiple states. They lured local youths by offering them a commission in exchange for using their bank accounts-mostly from a public sector bank based in Chandmari-for transactions. The extorted money was then laundered through cryptocurrency trading," the SP said. The gang, operating under the name 'BOSS', would use motorcycles with registration number 8085 and display the BOSS tag as their identity. During the raid, police seized a large cache of items, including 24 mobile phones, seven laptops, two tablets, two country-made pistols, 13 live cartridges, 49 ATM cards, 16 cheque books, 37 bank passbooks, and three currency counting machines. Authorities also recovered Rs.29.29 lakh in Indian currency, Rs.99,500 in Nepali currency, and two four-wheelers. The arrested have been identified as Sumit Saurabh (26), Sanjeev Kumar (24), Sunil Kumar Srivastava (49), and Dipanshu Pandey (28) - all residents of East Champaran. The fifth accused, Pappu Kumar (24), hails from West Champaran district. Police said further investigations are underway to trace other members of the racket and uncover the full extent of the gang's operations....