Gurgaon: Former bank loan agent who has a police in three countries looking for it and RS 5 Lakh’s prize in his head was arrested in Delhi by a team from the Cyber Gurgaon police station.
City police after Praveen Mittal (48) for allegedly attracting almost Rs 1.4 Crore from a farmer’s account in Gurgaon who has received compensation for the land from the government in the nationalized bank.
The police said they had succeeded in changing the cellphone number associated with a farmer account and even bought an ATM card for cash withdrawals and online shopping.
Similar cases were registered against him in Palwal, Sampla and Ballabhgarh in Haryana, apart from above and Rajasthan.
Fraud like this is not possible without Nexus in and more arrests tend to follow, said source.
The police said Mittal, who came from Sonipat, worked as a loan agent in Gurgaon and was associated with several nationalized banks.
Trade graduates, Mittal has four children from two marriages, police said.
He lived in Gurgaon with his second wife and two of their daughters.
In 2018, he allegedly falsified the Aadhaar Ram Leela card (65), a farmer from Mohammadpur Jharsa, who was compensated in 2016 after several land obtained by the government for road construction.
Fake ID in hand, Mittal walked to the 10 bank branch sector where RAM had his account.
Posing as RAM, he got a cellphone number that was linked to a modified farmer account.
A few days later, he filed an ATM card with a new cellphone number, then collected it from the post office by showing a fake aadhaar card.
He allegedly waited a few months to ensure that farmers were not aware of change.
After he found that the ATM card was still active, Mittal made a transaction of Rs 1.37 Crore from a RAM account between April 11 and April 21, 2019.
He was suspected of withdrawing money from several ATMs and also bought jewelry and other items using a card.
Because the cellphone number has been changed, RAM does not receive a warning about the transaction.
In June 2019, RAM got a surprise of his life when he visited the bank to update his passbook and found the money lost from his account.
“I was told that the transaction was made using my ATM card.
But I never applied for one because I was afraid of being a victim of online fraud.
I opened a bank account for the first time in 2016 when I received land compensation and I was not familiar with the banking method.
I made a transaction Only through checks, “said RAM.
FIR was immediately submitted.
The police focused on Mittal with the help of CCTV recordings from the bank, where he looked standing at the desk.
Mittal was also ordered earlier in the same year for allegedly forging checks and attracted Rs 5 Lakh.
Last week, the police announced a gift on his head.
ACP (DLF) Karan Goyal said Mittal was arrested in Delhi after the raid on Thursday.
“We try to find out whether more people are involved in evil and hope to get more details by interrogating him,” he said.
A bank manager said such fraud could not be done without insider information.
“How else will someone get the details of the account holder and balance on the account? Fraudsters may have some contacts at the bank concerned,” Banker said.
Cybersecurity Rakshit Tandon Experts say banking fraud is unusual, but can be committed only when the account holder shares a detailed or fraudster who manages to get information from a third party.
“As long as data is safe, no one can commit fraud.
Data security is the key,” said Tandon.
The former loan agent ‘sought in 3 countries’ for bank fraud was held
