New Delhi: Delhi Police has busted a gang that allegedly laundered fraud money through point-of-sale (POS) cash withdrawals. The method involved converting stolen or fraudulently obtained digital funds into physical cash by routing payments through legitimate merchant card terminals (POS machines). Three men, including the main account holder and two facilitators, have been arrested, and cash routed through a fuel station’s POS terminal has been recovered. According to officials, the gang operated across Delhi-NCR and was exposed after weeks of technical and financial investigation. The first breakthrough came on Sept 26, when investigators traced a suspicious beneficiary account—belonging to Mohammad Izhan, a resident of Jamia Nagar—which had received Rs 6.8 lakh from defrauded funds. “To arrest him, police laid a trap, summoning Izhan near Choudhary Dairy in Jamia Nagar under the guise of a bank verification call,” said DCP (Crime) Aditya Gautam. “During questioning, he admitted to creating fake bank accounts and executing fraudulent POS-based cash withdrawals on instructions from his absconding associates. Acting on his inputs, the team later identified and apprehended two others — Manoj Kumar and Noor Hasan — both employed at the IOCL petrol pump in Sarita Vihar,” DCP Gautam added.Investigators said the duo assisted the network in converting digital fraud proceeds into cash by generating fake fuel sale transactions through the POS terminal at their workplace.The accused were arrested on Oct 24 following coordinated raids and fund-trail tracking across multiple bank accounts and merchant terminals. Police said the three accused acted as part of a larger network that defrauded money from cyber scams into the formal economy.