Kolkata: At the end of July, the branch manager of a state-owned bank in Kolkata complained to the Police that the bank had sent a total of Rs.57 lakh, 74,071 from a customer’s account to seven accounts in different parts of India on the basis of instructions issued over the phone and signatures sent via email. By the time it was discovered that the instructions issued on the phone and the signature sent in the email are both fake, the money in the seven accounts has disappeared.
Upon investigation, the Bank Fraud Branch of the Intelligence Department came to know that the activities of this ring were being carried out mainly from the vicinity of New Delhi. Following that, a team of Police personal went to Delhi, and yesterday night conducted a raid. So far, four people have been arrested from different areas of Noida in Uttar Pradesh. In pursuit of these, the Police team spotted a possible fraudulent scheme against at least two other organizations, which enabled the police to apprehend the accused.
The four accused arrested by the Police are Yuvraj Dhingra, a resident of Greater Noida, who has the lion’s share of the money deposited in his account; Labish Tripathi of East Delhi, who is the main panda of this cycle; And Zeeshan Khan of Bareilly and Ashwini Kumar of East Delhi, who provide bank accounts and debit cards for money laundering. The four have been produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court in Gautam Buddha Nagar, Noida today, and seeking transit remand.
The members of the investigation team are Mr. Sandeep Shaw, Sub-Inspector, Bank Fraud Branch, who is also the investigating officer in the case, Sub-Inspector Mr. Tusimoy Das, Sub-Inspector Mr. Gautam Lama, Assistant Sub-Inspector Mr. Ejaz Khan, and Constable Mr. Tapan Ghosh.
Our, Reporter in Chief
R. Manoj Kumar Sharma
Siliguri City, West Bengal
