The Commissionerate police have approached its counterparts in Madhya Pradesh to bring notorious ATM hacker Syed Qureshi on transit remand to Odisha.
Qureshi, a resident of Mumbai, is one of the kingpins of a series of ATM thefts in Odisha and Madhya Pradesh. The Cyber Cell of the Madhya Pradesh police had nabbed him recently.
Police sources here said tricksters involved in rigging ATM machines in Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Rourkela, Puri and other areas of the State had brought the hacking software of ATM kiosks from Qureshi.
He was able to transfer more than Rs 100 crore to his account by hacking the kiosks.
The sources said police came to know about Qureshi after the arrest of two ATM looters. Qureshi used to charge 50 per cent of the money looted from the ATMs. The police are on the lookout for another person who is said to be the mastermind of the racket.