Ghaziabad: The cyber mobile of Ghaziabad police on Sunday arrested two people in ALT decrease Kavi Nagar region for allegedly duping banks of more than Rs 8 crore by posing as managers and owners of private businesses. The accused had been identified as Arun Kumar Foji alias Ravi, also a resident of Ghaziabad, along with his partner Tarun Sharma, a resident of Delhi. Arun has been the mastermind of the group whose other members are absconding. The fraud came to light that a couple of days back when Arun, posing as the owner of an organization, sent an email into a personal lender from Varanasi requesting to move Rs 8.5 lakh within his or her account. The bank supervisor got suspicious and contacted by the owner of the firm who refused sending such a mail. After that, the bank supervisor contacted the cops, and a case has been filed under applicable parts of IT Act. During analysis, the Varanasi authorities watched that the IP address of Ghaziabad and the situation has been known to Ghaziabad cyber mobile. Assessing the modus operandi, Abhay Kumar, Imperial officer of Kavi Nagar and cyber mobile in-charge, told TOI that among the accused could collect specifics of a business by calling or seeing as a client. “Arun, posing as the provider’s executive, would call the bank director who manages the provider’s transactions and create a brand new relationship. After about 20 days, they’d send a mail by a fake ID into the lender looking for money transfer desperately. When the cash is moved, they’d ruin the SIM and deactivate the bank accounts,” the CO said, adding that generally, the accused used the WiFi of a cafe to send the emails. Six ATM cards, eight different books of different monies, a vehicle and eight cellphones are retrieved by the accused. They’ve been reserved under section 420 (cheating), 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust) of the IPC and under applicable parts of IT Act. During interrogation, Arun demonstrated a year agothey had duped a charge of Rs 40 lakh and has been likewise sent to prison in 2017 for a fraud of Rs 28 lakh. That was, nevertheless, his next time . Arun was initially delivered to prison at a murder case at 2014 as well as his buddy Vinay Yadav (32). There they fulfilled Virendra Sahu, a fraudster, that instructed them how to mislead banks. And since the gang was busy in the region.
Two held for cheating banks of Rs 8cr
