- Used to lure poor people with 5000 Rs
Bhopal: Ayodhya Nagar Police has recently arrested a fraudster who used to open bank accounts by luring people with money and then sold these accounts to fraudsters for cheating. This is the second major achievement of Bhopal Police within a month. Before this, Hanumanganj Police had arrested a 7-member gang that provided mobile SIMs to fraudsters.
Ayodhya Nagar police station in-charge Mahesh Lilhare said that information was received from the informer that a youth takes documents of poor and working class people by luring them and gets bank accounts opened in their name. After the information, the police team reached the spot and detained a youth near Minal Residency Gate No. 4.
On interrogation, he told his name to be Atif Khan (30) resident of Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh. Currently, he was living in Sankhedi area of ??Kolar for the last one year. On searching the bag he had, 4 accounts kits of private banks were found. It contained passbooks, cheque books and ATM cards of different names. Along with this, 4 mobile SIMs were also recovered.
Initial investigation has revealed that the accused used to give 5 thousand rupees to the account holder to open an account. He used to sell this account to other people by taking a commission of 5 thousand rupees. Cyber ??fraudsters used the accounts for one to three weeks to deposit the defrauded money. After making transactions worth lakhs of rupees, they used to get these accounts closed and blocked so that no one could find out anything about them.
Targeted the working class
Police station in-charge Lilhare said that the accused used to target labourers working at the market, night shelters and people living in slums. He used to lure people with five thousand rupees to open accounts and used to talk about handing over the account after a month, due to which people used to get trapped. When the police questioned the account holders, they accepted giving their documents to Atif in the lure of five thousand rupees.
Search for other gang members
In the initial investigation of the police, it has been found that the people to whom Atif used to provide bank accounts are also residents of Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh. The police is searching for them. At present, the accused has told the names of three people to the police, who have gone underground after switching off their mobiles. The role of bank employees is also being investigated in this case. Police believe that accounts cannot be opened in this manner without the connivance of the employees.
