New Delhi, Sep 16 (PTI) Delhi Police has busted a cybercrime racket allegedly involved in siphoning off Rs 12.84 crore from the corporate bank account of a non-banking finance company through 317 unauthorised digital transactions, with the arrest of five people, including the relationship manager of a bank, officials said on Wednesday.
The investigation also uncovered the racket’s alleged links to Chinese groups operating on an online messaging application. Part of the cheated money was converted into USDT, a cryptocurrency, and transferred to fraudsters based abroad, police said.
Police have identified the other members of the racket based in Dubai and India, and efforts are underway to arrest them, they said.
The case was registered on August 21 on a complaint by a non-banking finance company (NBFC) after it detected unauthorised debit transactions from its corporate account through alerts generated by the bank.
According to the complaint, 317 transactions totalling about Rs 12.84 crore were routed to 34 primary-layer bank accounts without any authorisation, instruction or consent from the company management.
Police managed to place a lien or hold on around Rs 1.7 crore in the fraudulent accounts during the investigation, the officials said.
The arrested accused have been identified as Abhay Kumar Solanki from Bulandshahr, Lovely (26) from Kurukshetra, Naman Kumar and Vikas (30), both from Jaipur, and Harman (24), a resident of Bikaner.
Police said Rs 60,000 was credited to Solanki’s account and later withdrawn through an ATM.
Lovely is the account holder of Property Gallery, a bank account in Thanesar, Kurukshetra, which allegedly received Rs 80 lakh. He opened the account after being lured by Satyam, a resident of Kaithal, who is absconding, police said.
Naman is the account holder of Infirmity Services, a bank account in Jaipur, into which Rs 40 lakh was received. Another of his bank accounts also received around Rs 70 lakh and is linked to 43 complaints registered on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal across the country, police said.
According to police, Naman came in contact with Harman through Vikas. Harman allegedly operated Naman’s bank account to receive and transfer the cheated money after an APK file was installed on Naman’s mobile phone.
Naman was also introduced to a Delhi-based associate identified as Sourav and travelled to the capital, where he stayed at a hotel in Krishna Nagar. His bank account was allegedly operated there using a similar modus operandi, police said.
Harman allegedly remained in contact with several Chinese groups on Telegram and was also in touch with Devender Singh Chauhan from Udaipur, who allegedly converted the cheated money into USDT and transferred it to fraudsters based abroad, police said.
Police alleged that Harman obtained and operated Naman’s bank account against a commission and received around Rs 1.5 lakh from Chauhan.
Vikas, a relationship manager with a bank in Jaipur, allegedly helped Naman open accounts in different banks and introduced him to Harman, police said.
Five mobile phones, cheque books and rubber stamps of Property Gallery have been seized from the accused, police said. PTI SSJ ARI
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