Jagran correspondent, Noida. Cyber crime station police arrested the person who had given account of Rs 81 lakh in cyber fraud in September to a Greater Noida businessman in the name of IPO from Dehradun on Wednesday. A mobile phone was recovered from the accused.
He had given the fraudsters a current account on commission. 16 complaints have been received on the account from seven states. 99 lakh rupees were spent in the account through various frauds. Police is busy searching for other associates of the accused.
DCP Cyber Security Shaivya Goyal said that on the complaint of the victim, the Cyber Crime Police Station was busy identifying and searching for the thugs. Among the bank accounts involved in the fraud, one account was also found to be in the name of Ashish Pal of Khandasa village of Ayodhya. With the help of Sarvilasan, it was found out that Ashish was in Dehradun. The team caught Ashish from Dehradur on Wednesday.
During interrogation, it was revealed that Ashish had met a person through Facebook about six months ago. After that the conversation started on WhatsApp number. The person made a deal to give Rs 50,000 as commission to Ashish for opening a current account.
Ashish succumbed to greed. He opened a current account in the name of Pal Enterprises in the Kumarganj branch of Bank of Baroda and gave it to the person. 50 thousand rupees were received in return. After that Ashish was made to stay in a hotel in Lucknow.
The defrauded amount was transferred to the account of the accused. Then the amount was withdrawn and spent. Police station in-charge Vijay Singh Rana said that 16 complaints are registered against Ashish from the states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab and Rajasthan.