Gurugram: Two senior officials of a private bank were arrested for helping a cyberfraud gang by providing them with mule accounts to dupe ₹4 crore from a Faridabad resident, police said on Thursday.
Police identified the suspects as Shubham Kumar, 35, from Gayatri Nagar in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, living in Panchwati colony in Panipat and Kamal Kant, 34, of Rakseda in Panipat, living in Narela, Delhi.
Police said the duo were posted in a branch of a private bank in Panipat and were arrested on from there on Tuesday.
Yashpal Yadav, public relations officer of Faridabad police, said that the duo opened two current bank accounts with their Panipat branch earlier this year using forged documents and without any field verification.
“These accounts were in the name of other suspects Monu Kumar and Sagar, both in their late 20s,who gave access of their accounts to a cybercrime gang,” he said, adding that they were arrested two months back.
“Overall, ₹10 lakh in each of the accounts were credited and then transacted further into various accounts in October last year. This was the part of ₹4 crore duped from the victim,” said Yadav.
Investigators said that the victim is a resident of Sector 15 in Faridabad. He had filed police complaint on November 18 last year alleging that a suspect had contacted him over the phone on October 21 through social media platform and lured him to invest in the stock market for profits.
Police said that the suspects provided the victim with several bank accounts in which he made multiple transactions amounting to ₹4 crore. The suspects made him download a phishing application to track his investments and profit.
However, when the victim tried to withdraw the profits, he failed and realised that he had been defrauded.
He got an FIR registered against the suspects under section 318(2) (cheating) of the BNS at the Cybercrime (central) police station on November 18.