Man held for giving bank a/c to frauds to route Rs.1.27 crore
MUMBAI, Feb. 3 -- The cyber police have arrested a man for allegedly supplying bank accounts to cyber frauds who cheated an elderly Mumbai resident of Rs.1.27 crore by posing as a senior CBI officer and threatening him with arrest in a fabricated case.
The accused, identified as Parshuram Jagtap, was arrested and produced before a court. Police said he provided bank accounts used to route the defrauded money.
According to the police, the complainant, a retired central government employee residing on Juhu-Versova Link Road, received a call in October last year from a man claiming to be Sandeep Rao, an officer from the Ashok Nagar police station in Bengaluru. The caller alleged that a person arrested in a money-laundering case was found with an ATM passbook linked to the complainant's account and that a fraud of Rs.75 lakh had been committed in his name.
The person warned that the Delhi Police and the CBI were conducting a parallel probe and threatened the complainant with arrest. Soon after this threat, an imposter posing as CBI officer Daya Nayak contacted the complainant, showed him forged documents via video call. Believing this, the complainant transferred Rs.1.27 crore. When the money was not returned, he approached the cyber police, leading to the arrest....
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