Yogesh K Porwar
The East Division Cyber Crime Police busted a gang and arrested three conmen who created fake ID posing as police officials and forged the court order to de freeze the bank accounts to get Rs.1.3 crore from the private bank.
Based on the complaint,the police track down the accused through the account number where the money was transferred and arrested two accused from Delhi west before arresting the third accused and kingpin from Rajasthan.
This incident also expose the loopholes in the system and the new form of cyber frauds which is being used.
Senior officer told reporters,the accused sent email to nodal mail id of a private bank desk through a fake email Id Cb-crime-sog@karnataka.gov.in attaching 18 court orders issued from September last year to February this year,seeking release of the amount from the account which were involved in cyber crimes.
The accused had even called the nodal officer of the bank to inform about the court order mailed and requested to expediate the process .
The bank officials checked the number mentioned in the court order and the caller number found to be the same and released the amount totalling to be Rs.1,32,28,293.
When the senior officials when checked about the bank official releasing such a huge amount beyond his capacity checked to find that they have been cheated and filed a complaint with the Halasuru police .
Based on the complaint the police swung into action and track down the accused based on the money trail and arrested the two from west Delhi.
Based on their information the police arrested the kingpin from Rajasthan who was handling the duo from his hometown and created all the forged documents.
The accused according to the officials confessed that he had created a fake official ID of the police by registering in À KSWAN (Karnataka State wide Area Network) with fake credentials .
The accused even obtained the information of freeze bank accounts online and created a fake court order to cheat the bank.
The accused had transferred the received money to different bank accounts and the kingpin had already spent Rs.38 lakh on his vices .
The police have freezed the accounts of the other two accused total worth Rs.63 lakh while the duo had spent 31.2 lakh before they were traced and arrested .
The accused have been produced before the court and remanded to judicial custody for further investigation.
