Jagran correspondent, Bhubaneswar. Police has busted an interstate cyber gang operating from Cuttack. Madhupatna police station has arrested the three main accused of this gang along with four private bank employees. It is alleged that these people have defrauded many people in the state and outside the state of crores of rupees.
The arrested accused include Bablu Nayak, resident of Balikuda of Jagatsinghpur, Narayan Das, resident of Panang, Mahanga area of Cuttack and Rudramadhav Mohapatra of Tirtol, living in Barbati.
Employees of many banks also included
The bank employees who cooperated with them include Relationship Manager of Utkarsh Small Finance Bank - Harekrishna Sahu, resident of Jajpur Korei, resident of Tinigharia, Cuttack, Deputy Manager of Bandhan Bank - Abhishek Mahanti of Tirtol, resident of Dulladevi Road, Madhupatna, PRO of Jagatsinghpur Axis Bank - Devashish Malik of Balikuda and Swaraj Samal, employee of Suryodhya Small Finance Bank, Cuttack.
Two days ago, a complaint of fraud worth lakhs of rupees in the name of trading was lodged in Madhupatna police station. On the basis of this complaint, Madhupatna police, with the help of cyber police station, collected information about the accounts to which the fraudulent amount was transferred.
During the investigation, Jagatsinghpur Axis Bank's PRO Devashish Malik was first taken into custody. On the basis of his information other accused were arrested.
Advertisement for investment in trading on social media platforms
Police investigation has revealed that the accused used to advertise for investment in trading on various social media platforms. To win the trust of investors, for the first time, he even returned a small amount as profit. Due to this, when the investors invested huge amount due to greed, the accused used to close their accounts.
The accused used to open current accounts in the name of anonymous companies like 'Mahakali Construction Private Limited' and 'Priya Fintech' by obtaining their documents without the knowledge of the people. Additionally, some inactive accounts were also used.
SIM cards purchased on the basis of fake documents
SIM cards were purchased on the basis of fake documents obtained from the bank. After the fraud, the accounts were closed and the SIM cards were destroyed.
According to the police, even before this the accused had cheated two people from Supaul in Bihar and Chandauli district in Uttar Pradesh. 69 mobile phones, 4 laptops, 3 desktops, 215 SIM cards of various companies, 554 bank passbooks, 702 debit and credit cards, one car, two two-wheelers and Rs 3,200 in cash were seized from the accused. Apart from this, various bank accounts containing around Rs 90 lakh have been frozen.
This information was given by Police Commissioner S. Devdutt Singh gave. The team of Cyber Police Station ACP Satyajit Das, Inspector Rashmita Jena, Madhupatna Police Station Inspector Chittaranjan Raut, Inspector Debiprasad Sahu, Inspector Vikas Kumar Palai, SI Mudra Yudhishthir and ASI Ashutosh Shadangi arrested this gang.