Pramesh S Jain
Following a digital arrest case of a 75-year-old retired engineer,the Southeast cyber crime police arrested two men including an industrialist from Hyderabad who were received the fraud money in their bank accounts.
The police also exposed the link of a CASINO in Srilanka linked to the cyber fraud which is being probed in detail .
The accused according to the police trapped Manjunath posing as CBI and ED officials threatened him to book him under money laundering three months ago and forced him to pay his life time saving of Rs.4.7 Crore over a period of time .
The accused even forced him to share the copies of his properties which they tried to use as collateral to avail personal loan unsuccessfully .
The police based on a tip off from a Chennai counterparts,approached Manjunath who was until then not aware of the scam and transferring the money to different accounts thinking that he is cooperating with the investigation.
Manjunath had recently transferred a sum of Rs.10 lakh to the account belonging to the driver of Ishwar Singh,a Hyderabad based Businessman.
Based on the information,a team of police led by ACP, Govardhan track down Ishwar Singh who confessed that he had gone to Sri Lanka to play Casino with ₹25 lakh .
After losing ₹15 lakh he returned to Hyderabad and asked for the refund for the rest of the money.
The accused asked Manjunath posing as CBI officials to transfer the money to Ishwar.“He was unaware that the money he received is part of the cyber crime“,a senior officer, said adding that the money has been seized and returned to Manjunath.
Meanwhile the police also detained Ramnarayana Choudhary,an industrialist from Hyderabad whose account the accused had used to transfer the fraud money .
The police found that Choudhary has received ₹1.8 crore in his account which was later transferred to different accounts in Guntur and Vishakapattnam,the officer,added.
The police said that both Choudhary and Singh are unaware of the money they had received in their accounts belonging to cyber crime.
The police have warned people not to share their bank accounts with anyone,while probe is on to track down the accused and expose the links of Cyber frauds and Casino in Sri Lanka .
