Gurugram: CA, banker among 7 arrested for cyber fraud

Sanjay Yadav

Gurugram, March 7

The Faridabad police have busted a gang, who committed cyber fraud of Rs 8.54 lakh in the name of trading in stock market. They have arrested seven members of the gang, including a professional CA, a former bank manager and a banker. They also recovered Rs 22,500, four phones, seven cheque books and three debit cards from their possession.

The accused were allegedly in contact with a Chinese cyber thug, Mek, through social media and used to provide him with fake accounts. According to the police, the arrested accused were identified as Amit, Mayank and Krishanveer, residents of Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh, Sunil (alias raju) and Sagar, residents of Ghaziabad, Neeraj Kumar, a resident of Fatehpur Beri in Delhi, and Arjun Biswa, a resident of Jalpaiguri in West Bengal.

“Mayank earlier worked as a manager with the HDFC Bank while Krishanveer is working as a relationship manager in IndusInd bank. On January 23, the gang members duped a Faridabad resident of Rs 8.54 lakh in the name of trading in the stock market,” said a senior investigating officer.

An FIR was registered and police arrested four accused Amit, Neeraj, Mayank and Sagar on February 29 from Delhi. After this the other three accused were arrested and they were taken on six days police remand

“The investigation has revealed that the accused used to create a fake website similar to the website of a real company for trading in the share market. After a victim added a good amount of money to the website, they would transfer the money to their accounts. The accused bank employee used to provide fake SIM cards and fake accounts. After completion of police interrogation, all the accused were produced in a city court today and sent to judicial custody,” said Abhimanyu Goyal, ACP cyber, Faridabad.