Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Working out a case of cyber crime in which cyber conmen siphoned off Rs 7 lakh from the bank account of pensioner while posing as treasury office staff, the cyber crime branch on the first day of the New Year, arrested four persons who arranged for bank accounts to commit the cyber fraud.
Transactions worth over Rs 50 lakh was made in the bank account used in the cyber fraud in last 20 days, police officials said.
Additional DCP Shailendra Singh Chauhan said victim received a call from cyber conmen posing as treasury office staff. The conmen claimed that pension of the victim was on hold and he needed to update the life certificate for getting the hold removed from his pension account.
On pretext of updating the details, the cyber conmen siphoned off cash Rs 6.95 lakh from the pensioner’s bank account regarding which a complaint was received by the cyber crime branch.
Cyber crime branch traced the bank account used in the crime and arrested four persons who were identified as Durgesh Kumar Tandon (19), Rahul Sonwane (20), Karan Sonwane (19) and Vishwanath Khunte (24), all residents of Sakti district of Chhatisgarh.
Questioning them revealed that Durgesh Tandon, Karan Sonwane, Rahul Sonwane opened bank accounts and sold it to middleman Vishwanath Khunte who further sold it to the gangs of cyber conmen who called and duped the pensioner. Vishwanath Khunte who acts as an agent of cyber conmen and provides them bank accounts has completed intermediate while the other three are Class 8 dropouts and were doing odd jobs for living.
