31-Dec-2024 06:37 PM
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Bhubaneswar, Dec 31 (Reporter) The Cyber Crime Unit of the Odisha Crime Branch has arrested two fraudsters for duping Rs.1.6 crore from a senior scientist posing as Mumbai crime branch officers.
Crime Branch sources here on Tuesday said one Satish Kumar K from Chennai and Harish C M
from Kozhikode were arrested for their involvement in the case.
Out of the total Rs 1.06 crores cheated by the two fraudsters, 68 lakhs were transferred to the bank account of Satish Kumar and Rs. 30 lakhs to Harish C M.
The Cyber Crime Unit of the Crime Branch, after reviewing the money trail identified that majority of the money in this case had gone to two accounts which were located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and Kozhikode, Kerala.
The Crime Branch team successfully identified the accused persons and two teams proceeded to Chennai & Kerala and arrested the accused persons
One of the accused person Satish Kumar K was previously arrested in Chennai for duping Rs.1.9 crore
On verification in the NCR Portal, there are 22 other complaints against the bank current account of Satish Kumar K in different states throughout the country and 6 complaints against the current account of Haris C M.
The accused Satish Kumar K has been forwarded to SDJM court Bhubaneswar on Tuesday and has been remanded to judicial custody.
Haris C M is being brought on transit remand from Kerala and after reaching Odisha he would be also produced before the SDJM Court here.
Previously in this case the Crime Branch had arrested three accused persons from Hanumangarh of Rajasthan, Surat City of Gujarat and Kerala and they are still in judicial custody.
This case was registered on the complaint of a Senior Scientist from Bhubaneswar who stated that the fraudsters had duped him of Rs 1 ,06,82,000 into three banks in three transactions between August 9 and August 14 last.
The fraudsters told him that there were serious allegations and found 4 illegal accounts opened using his Aadhar number at UP, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Bihar which were being used for money laundering during election time by Nawab Mallik and duped the money to verify whether his account was linked to any illegal account...////...