Dr.Thomas (Special Correspondent)
T
he Yeshwanthpur police arrested a student from reputed college who was colluding with a former employee cheated an e-commerce company.
Senior officer said that the cheating came to light when the manager of the company noticed that many products which are being purchased from a same address have not been returned even after cancellation of order.
Based on the complaint, the Yeshwanthpur police inspector and his team track down the address and arrested the accused and recovered 3 expensive electronic gadgets including 17 mobile phones,2 mac book,a desk top,gaming laptop,apple earpods,Air condition worth Rs.20.3 lakh.
The police have also seized the bank account containing Rs.30 lakh.
The accused told the police that he was involved in the cheating in collusion with a former employee of the company and doing it for the commission basis .
The accused told the police that he contacted the prime accused after noticing an advertisement on telegram app ,which offered to buy expensive products from amazon and also get refund without it.
The prime accused according to the police is a former employee who had access code of the website and manipulate the data of product return.
Even though the request of returning the product was raised the money paid for the products paid,the product would not be returned .
The accused was asked to share the profit by transferring the money in crypto currency accounts.
The police also found that the prime accused had approached the account holders of crypto currency and cliched a deal that money will be transferred to their account and he will withdraw the amount after paying commission to them.
The police have written to the crypto exchange company asking to freeze the account .
The police are on the manhunt for the prime accused who is on the run.
