Gurugram: 3 bankers among 4 held for helping cyber fraudsters

Our Correspondent

Gurugram, February 27

Three bank officials have been arrested for allegedly giving bank account details to cyber fraudsters. The police also nabbed their associates from Mewat on whose behest they were committing the crime. The police have recovered two mobile phones from their possession.

The suspects have been identified as Mohit Rathi (25) of Rathiwas village, Mahesh Kumar (27) of Kalwari village, Vishwkarma Maurya (26) of Mahu district in Uttar Pradesh and Hayat (23) of Salaka village in Nuh district.

The police said Mohit was assistant manager, while Mahesh and Vishwkarma were deputy managers at Kotak Mahindra Bank, MG Road branch here. Hayat was the mediator between the bank officials and cyber thugs.In a complaint on November 18 last year, a local resident had told the cybercrime police station in Manesar that someone called him up and said his son was admitted to the hospital and sought Rs 10,000 as help. The complainant told the police that the person had sent an UPI ID and asked him to transfer the money to his nephew’s account. The complainant said he transferred Rs 10,000 to the bank account, but later he came to know that he was duped.

On his complaint, an FIR was registered. Mohit was arrested on February 21, while Mahesh landed in police net on February 22. Vishwkarma and Hayat were arrested yesterday. The suspects told the police that they had duped the man and transferred the amount to a fake account.

During police interrogation, it was revealed that Hayat had met the mastermind of cyber fraud in Mewat and since then, he was in constant touch with the fraudster. According to the police, the suspects provided him with bank account details to be used in cyber frauds. In return, they used to charge Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000 per bank account from the fraudsters.

The police said earlier, the suspects used to provide bank account details to the fraudsters through Hayat and at present, they were in direct contact with them.

“The three suspects had been working with Kotak Mahindra Bank for the past seven months and during this period, they had opened about 2,000 bank accounts. They used to mislead employees of companies located in the Bilaspur area and obtain their documents and open their bank accounts. Later, these bank accounts were used by cyber fraudsters. We are investigating whether all these bank accounts have been used for fraud or not. We are questioning the suspects and obtaining details of bank accounts opened by the suspects,” said Siddhant Jain, DCP (Cyber).

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