Another accused, Kuldeep, has been arrested by the police in the case of fraud of Rs.16.5 crore in the Nainital Bank located in Sector-62, Noida. The accused used Kuldeep’s bank account to cheat and got a commission of Rs 5 lakh in return. Cyber criminals have committed a massive fraud by hacking a bank server.
Earlier in the same case another accused Harsh was arrested by the police. Harsh planned the fraud along with his brother, chartered accountant Shubham Bansal and some other associates. Police are currently looking for other accused.
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16.5 crores were transferred to 89 different accounts
In fact, in June 2024, cyber criminals hacked Nainital Bank’s RTGS channel and manager login password and transferred Rs 16.5 crore from the bank to 89 different accounts. The fraud took place between June 16 and 20. The bank came to know about this fraud after several days of irregularities in the balance sheet. After that a case was registered in the Cyber Crime Police Station Sector 36 on the complaint of the Bank’s IT Manager.
4 crore worth of assets were frozen
ADCP Cyber Crime Preeti Yadav said that the police have so far frozen assets worth Rs 4 crore in the Nainital Bank fraud case of Rs 16.5 crore, of which Rs 2 crore are linked to Kuldeep. The investigation of the case is going on and the police are taking steps to nab the other accused.
