Gurugram : In the second case of on-line bank fraud by the employees of bank in a couple of days in Gurugram district, the Gurugram Cyber police arrested three employees of Yes Bank including a manager of the bank’s Delhi branch allegedely cheated over Rs 9.5 lakh. The suspects used to open accounts fraudulently and sell them to the fraudsters after taking money. The police has started investigation in the case after obtained a four-day police remand from the court. The suspects have been identified as Mohammad Mukim, Anikesh and Rohsan Kumar all originally hailing from Bihar and presently staying in Delhi. Mukim was the branch manager of Lajpat Nagar, Delhi branch, of Yes Bank, while Anikesh and Roshan were working as sales officers at the same bank.
Addressing media persons Assistant Commissioner Police Priyanshu Dewan said a Gurugram resident had filed a complaint last year that he had received a call on April 10, in which the caller mentioned that they were calling from Fedex and a parcel of his had been confiscated at the Customs as it had illegal items. The caller said the call would be transferred to Mumbai Police to report the issue. On the pretext of removing his name from the case, the suspects duped him of Rs 9,21,500 and transferred the amount in four accounts. An FIR was registered by the cyber crime police station. While following the investigation, a team led by SHO Jasvir arrested the suspects from Delhi on Saturday night.
Investigation revealed that the suspects working with Yes Bank used to open accounts in Yes Bank by fraudulently preparing fake documents and as many as 12 fake bank accounts were opened by them. On 26th Feburary this year Gurugram cyber crime cell had arrested three senior executives of Kotak Mahindra Bank M.G. Road allegedly involved on-line frauds through a middleman, a resident of Nuh in Mewat district ,opening fake accounts. On the pretext of opening a bank account, Rs 2 lakh was received from another suspect Suhail Akram and distributed among themselves. Of the defrauded amount, Rs 1,52,000 was transferred to the bank account provided by the suspects, said ACP Dewan.
He said that further investigation in this case is underway to find how many other accounts have been opened by the suspects and how much money has been taken per account and who else is involved in the gang. Dewan said that Rs 1.5 lakh was transferred in the account of Ranjan resident of Muzaffar Nagar in U.P by Roshan working in Yes Bank branch at Chattarpur and was arrested by the police and on his information Anikesh working as Deputy Sales Manager in the same bank branch and Mukim also working as manager in Lajpat Nagar Branch New Delhi.
