3 held for providing bank accounts to cyber-fraud syndicate in Gurugram

Gurugram, Jul 9 (PTI) Gurugram Police has arrested three persons for allegedly providing bank accounts to a cyber-fraud syndicate involved in duping people on the pretext of helicopter bookings for the Char Dham Yatra, police said on Thursday. The police arrested three accused -- Ajit Kumar Shah, 30, Pradum, 30, Vinay, 40 -- on Wednesday and recovered five mobile phones, five bank passbooks, 16 cheque books, and 18 ATM cards from them, they added. A case has been registered against the accused, all residents of Uttar Pradesh, at the Cyber Police Station South. According to the police, the interrogation revealed that each accused had updated the address on his Aadhaar card and opened more than 10 bank accounts in different banks. They supplied the cheque books, passbooks, ATM cards, and other banking documents of these accounts to cyber fraud syndicates in exchange for a commission of Rs 5,000 per bank account. Accused Vinay disclosed that he became involved in this activity at the instance of another person and later brought Ajit Kumar Shah and Pradum into the operation. During the investigation, three complaints were found registered on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal against the recovered bank accounts and mobile numbers, police said. "The accused are being interrogated regarding their involvement in the present case and other cyber fraud cases, the identities of their associates, financial transactions carried out through the bank accounts, and the wider cyber fraud network," Cyber ACP Gaurav Fogat said. PTI COR SHS