two Pvt bank officials held for role in Rs.4cr cyber fraud
Gurugram, April 17 -- Two senior officials of a private bank were arrested for helping a cyberfraud gang by providing them with mule accounts to dupe Rs.4 crore from a Faridabad resident, police said.
Police identified the suspects as Shubham Kumar, 35 and Kamal Kant, 34. They were arrested from Panipat on Tuesday. Yashpal Yadav, public relations officer of Faridabad police, said that the duo opened two bank accounts using forged documents. "These accounts were in the name of other suspects, Monu Kumar and Sagar, who gave the account access to a cybercrime gang," he said.
Investigators said that the victim is a resident of Sector 15 in Faridabad. He had filed police complaint on November 18 last year alleging that a suspect had contacted him over the phone and lured him to invest in the stock market. Police said the victim made multiple transactions worth Rs.4 crore in the bank accounts. When he could not withdraw the profits, he realised that he had been defrauded....
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