The Cyber crime branch has nabbed the accused involved in duping a Mandideep-based factory owner of Rs 42 lakh in the month of September this year; accused was nabbed from Jabalpur.
The nabbed accused was identified as Rajendra Satnami who used to facilitate opening of fake bank accounts and using these accounts he would finance expensive goods and would sold them.
He has been booked for fraud in the past and has been granted bail in the case. A total of 10 accused have been arrested in the case, so far.
Rajendra was acquainted with Johny who used to work as accomplice with his elder brother in criminal activities. Using documents of Johny , Anil and Rajendra used to open bank accounts which were used in fraud. These accounts were used in availing loans for expensive goods.
Police have arrested Anil Pandey and Johny Brown while Rajendra Satnami remained absconding.
Notably on September 15 owner of Prompt Engineers Anand Jain’s mobile number was found to be inactive and later he found that the mobile number has been deactivated and Rs 42 lakh have been transferred from his bank account.
It must be written here that cyber crime has grown exponentially in the country and people in large number have reported the matter to the police. On the other hand, police say that this is a great achievement on their part regarding check on the cyber fraud. Another interesting fact is that more and more educated people have become part of this kind of forgery.
During the investigation police found that a duplicate mobile number was obtained by the accused to commit fraud. Two accused Anil Pandey and Johny Brown were arrested in the investigation. Johny posed as the victim and helped in obtaining the duplicate mobile number while Anil facilitated the whole fraud.
Anil has given the task of finding person with similar features as of victim and was offered a hefty amount in return of work.