A 27-year-old Indian was among four arrested in the UK over an alleged attempt to rob a Spanish bank of millions of pounds by taking control of its computers.
Akash Vaghela, Asad AliQureshi (35) lanre Mullins-Abudu (25) and Dean Outram (34) on Saturday appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with conspiracy to steal.The three men have been remanded in custody by District Judge Howard Riddle and will next appear at Southwark Crown Court on September 27. Vaghela was released on bail until the same date.
The Metropolitan Police had arrested 12 men aged between 23 and 50 in london on Friday but later charged only four with conspiracy to steal millions of pounds from a london branch of Spanish bank Santander, BBC reported.Eight others have been bailed to a date in mid-November pending further inquiries.
It is alleged one of the plotters posed as an engineer in an attempt to fit a computer in the bank in south-east london with a "keyboard video mouse" device that allowed them to transmit its desktop contents.Detectives say the hardware could have "allowed the suspects to take control of the bank's computer remotely", and potentially allowed them to siphon millions.