LUCKNOW, May 13 -- 'Mule' accounts of a bank's branch in Bareilly district might have laundered large sums of money as part of a 'hawala' racket, senior police officials said on Monday.

The officials were investigating a differently abled man from a Bareilly village who was flagged by the Financial Intelligence Unit-India (FIU-IND) for suspicious financial transactions worth over Rs.97 lakh that were made through his bank account. An FIR was then registered against Puneet Kumar under section 66 D of the Information Technology Act, 2000 for cheating by personation using a computer resource with Nawabganj police station last Thursday.

A senior police official said several crores of rupees were detected in 25 other salary accounts of the s...