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Mumbai Cyber Fraud Case: Mumbai’s Juhu police has exposed a gang that opened accounts of hundreds of women using the name of Maharashtra government’s most popular Ladki Behen Yojana and then sold those accounts to cyber thugs and illegal traders.
Investigating officer of this case posted in Juhu Police, Sharad Landge, said that we had received information that some people of Nehru Nagar area of Juhu told that accounts have been opened in the name of Ladki Behen Yojana and one thousand rupees are being given in exchange for the account.
They used to give 5 thousand rupees per bank account
On getting the information, the police went to Nehru Nagar and caught Avinash Kamble who was opening people’s accounts and brought him to the police station and started interrogating him. During interrogation, Kamble told that he is a resident of Virar and has studied till eighth standard. Kamble further told that he works as a food delivery boy and during this time he met a person named Ritesh Joshi who told him that he has to open accounts of people for which he will get Rs. 5000 per bank account. Out of that Rs. 5000, he used to give Rs. 1000 to those in whose name the account was opened.
The accused further told that he has opened 13 bank accounts in his name, out of which he uses only 3 accounts himself and he has sold the remaining 10 accounts to someone else in the same way.
On the basis of Kamble’s statement, the police arrested Ritesh’s wife Falguni and Kamble’s girlfriend Shruti Raut. As soon as Ritesh came to know about his wife’s arrest, he absconded somewhere. At present, the police is searching for him and his 2 other accomplices.
Landge said that during the investigation, they have extracted information about the bank accounts opened in the last five months and frozen 104 bank accounts in which they found Rs 19 lakh 43 thousand.
Sources said that during the investigation, it was found that the accused used to open bank accounts of people in the name of Ladki Behan Yojana by going to slums for more than a year and the accused told the police that till now they must have opened about 1000 bank accounts.
The police said that according to the details of the accounts given by the accused during interrogation, in the month of February alone, they had opened 10 accounts in Yes Bank in which they saw transactions of Rs 7 crore, but when the police went to take action, only Rs 3-4 lakh was left in that account, which has been frozen.
Landge said that this is a very serious case where the accused used to sell the accounts of less educated people to someone else for Rs 5000 and then those accounts were used for cyber fraud, trading and converting black money into white.
Landge said that the accused used those bank accounts for illegal trading and withdrew the money earned from trading from those accounts without paying tax to the government. If any income tax notice comes later, it comes to the woman in whose name the bank accounts were opened.
The police has understood from the preliminary investigation so far in this case that the accused have used these accounts to embezzle about Rs 100 crore.
An official said that to open bank accounts, many documents like PAN card, Aadhar card, Voter ID, Ration card, Form 60, Passport are required but the accused deliberately do not use the PAN card and instead use Form 60, due to which the police face difficulty in finding out how many accounts have been opened in a person’s name and where.
