The Special Task Force (STF) of the Haryana police on Sunday, arrested four criminals who allegedly used to hack ATM machines to withdraw money. A total of 75 ATM cards and an SUV have been recovered from their possession. The probe team suspect that around 100-150 members of the gang are active in Delhi and NCR.
Following a tip-off, Assistant Sub-Inspector Vijay Kumar of the STF nabbed the accused from the Jain temple located at Sadar Bazar in Gurugram. The accused has been identified as Iqbal, Rahil, Wahid and Saddam a resident of Nuh district in Haryana.
During the investigation, the arrested accused revealed, “They used to open accounts in various banks and then visited ATM booths to withdraw money. “They used their ATM cards during the transaction and when the amount was about to come they hacked the machine. They had collected their amount but the entry of the transaction could not be shown in the machine transaction history,” an STF official said.
Later on, they called up the customer care centre and file their complaint in front of them.
“When the bank could not found the transaction entry they again submitted the amount into their accounts and later they withdrew the money and distributed between them,” the officer, said.