Mumbai: Mumbai police’s crime branch has unearthed significant information while investigating the money trail in the murder case of NCP leader Baba Siddique.
Investigation Reveals Details
Sources said that the Bishnoi gang and absconding accused Shubham Lonkar used a cunning modus operandi to transfer funds to a bank account opened in the name of accused Salman Vohra at Karnataka Bank in Anand district in Gujarat. Rather than transferring money from a single location, Rs 6 lakh was deposited into this account from multiple locations using cash deposit machines across Maharashtra, Punjab and Haryana.
This elaborate scheme has made it challenging for the crime branch to connect the dots or identify those who deposited the money on Lonkar’s instructions. A crime branch official said on condition of anonymity that although the funds were deposited under Lonkar’s directions, the operation was orchestrated by gangster Anmol Bishnoi, who is now in jail in the US.
Sleeper cells active across various states carried out the cash deposits into Vohra’s account. Another official confirmed that Sumit Wagh, one of the suspects, admitted during interrogation that the funds came from different locations. However, he claimed he was unaware of the exact sources and only transferred the money under Lonkar’s instructions.
