Fraudsters rob civic body Rs 1.43cr through cloned cheques
Senior bank officials suspect the cash withdrawals were made using some cloned cheque pages as the original pages were still lying in Burdwan Municipality's custody.
Senior bank officials suspect the cash withdrawals were made using some cloned cheque pages as the original pages were still lying in Burdwan Municipality's custody.
The Economic Offences Wing of Odisha police arrested six fraudsters, including a woman, on the charge of perpetrating Rs 16.71 crore fraud in a nationalised bank by impersonating as highly paid employees of PhonePe, an digital payments and financial services company.
He said that the repeated assurance of Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Cooperation Minister Vasavan that not a single paisa of the depositors would be lost is only a deception.
The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Punjab Cyber Crime Cell, RK Jaiswal said in two such cases, fraudsters impersonating VVIPs trying to defraud innocent people have come to the fore in less than a month.
A police official said people are receiving calls from unknown numbers feigning to be some important person or senior officer.
The duo was arrested on the basis of a complaint filed by the Executive Officer, Barbil Municipality. The complaint had alleged that there was fraudulent and unauthorised transfer of Rs.2,45,60,800 from their official account maintained with Bank of Baroda, Barbil by forging the cheques and the signature of the complainant.
Based on the complaint, State Crime Branch (Gurugram Unit) had arrested three accused — Rohit Thakran on 18 January 2021, and advocate Chaman Lal Arora and advocate Subhash Chand Arora (on January 21, 2021), witness to the sale deed registration.
