The Delhi Police on Tuesday said it has arrested 12 people, including three employees of HDFC Bank, for attempting to make unauthorized withdrawals from a very high value NRI customer of the bank.
Police said the accused hacked through internet banking and tried to withdraw money using a fraudulently obtained check book of an NRI customer.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Cyber Crime) KPS Malhotra said, “The accused obtained an Indian mobile phone number similar to the USA mobile number of the account holder registered in KYC.”
HDFC Bank had filed a complaint with the Cyber Crime Unit of the Special Cell alleging that several unauthorized internet banking attempts have been noticed in an NRI bank account. The bank further alleged that all 66 attempts were made to access the account through internet banking.
Based on this complaint, the police constituted a team which was tasked to identify the culprits on the basis of technical footprints and human intelligence.
Raids were conducted at 20 locations in Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh during which 12 people, including three employees of HDFC Bank, were arrested.
Three accused HDFC Bank employees, including a woman, were involved in issuance of check books, updating mobile phone numbers and removing the loan from the account.
The accused have been identified as Ghaziabad resident R Jaiswal, Ghaziabad resident G Sharma, Greater Noida resident A Kumar, Hapur resident A Tomar, Ghaziabad resident H. Yadav, SL Singh. Bulandshahr resident S. Tanwar resident Gurugram, NK Jatav resident Jhansi and S. Singh resident Baghpat UP.
The accused HDFC employees D. Chaurasia of Rae Bareli, A. Singh and a female employee.
During interrogation, it was revealed that the main mastermind had received information that the said NRI account is dormant and there is a huge amount in it.
With the help of a female employee of HDFC, he issued the check book of the said account and also got the loan of the account frozen.
After this check book and mobile phone r. Jaiswal, who distributed check book leaves to his other comrades for clearance, with the understanding of distributing it in lieu of giving 50 per cent of the total money withdrawn from the account. Consent to the bank over phone on behalf of the actual account holder.
D. Chaurasia and A. Singh (both HDFC Bank employees) tried to update the KYC linked phone numbers. Other associates tried to login to the account’s internet banking for the purpose of transferring money.
DCP Malhotra said that investigation is still on to unearth the entire conspiracy.
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