HYDERABAD: Cyber crime sleuths of all Hyderabad arrested the main accused that introduced as a cop and siphoned off Rs 1.18 crore later unfreezing some bank account of Kolkata ICICI bank branch.
The accused is Nallamothu Anil Kumar, by Mumbai.
Back in April 2021, Anil Kumar moved into Alipore division of ICICI bank in Kolkata posing as a cop.
He even gave a bogus letter stating that the officer in-charge, cyber mobile authorities, Lal Bazaar, Kolkata, has led the lender to unfreeze 12 balances and transfer the sum to a SBI accounts in the title of Anand Jannu at Hyderabad.
When the banking officials moved Rs 1.18 crore into the SBI accounts, the accused moved it to numerous accounts at different places and pulled the sum instantly, authorities said.
Depending on the criticism of ICICI bank, Hyderabad cyber crime police registered a case and detained Anand Jannu on June 2.
Anand told authorities he received just Rs 1 lakh in the principal accused.
Police team afterwards, went into West Bengal and detained Anil Kumar couple of days back.
He had been attracted to Hyderabad to some transit and remanded in judicial custody Monday.
“We’ve captured Rs 2 lakh money, eight debit cards, even three different books, three cell phones and a notebook from the accused,” ACP KVM Prasad explained.
Anil Kumar was previously arrested in January 2015 from Cyber crime authorities for supplying bank account to Nigerian cyber crime gangs to move the profits of fraudulent trades for the commission.