Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
The Cyber crime police are on the lookout for a conman who advised a 32-year-old Autorickshaw driver to open Saving bank account in a private bank to get the vehicle in government subsidy and misused the same as mule account for cyber crimes .
The incident came to light when the police probing a cyber crime case caught G.Vinod Kumar,from Kamalanagar,off guard and inquiry revealed that it was his friend Ravichandra who is operating the account.
Ravichandra had transacted a total of Rs.34 lakh in three months while Vinod Kumar was unaware and waiting for the response from the government to get subsidy.
Vinod Kumar told the police that he got introduced to Ravichandra through his friend Pramod in November last year.
Ravichandra claiming to have contacts in the government department assured to get him autorickshaw on government subsidised rates and advised him to open SB account for the process .
As per the advise Binod Kumar opened the account at a federal bank and handed over the KIT- including the passbook,cheque book and ATM card to Ravichandra for further process.
Police suspect that Ravichandra is part of cyber crime network suspected to be providing mule accounts. efforts are on to track down the accused .
