Call centre employee held in Rs1 crore e-fraud case

The Mulund police with the help of the cybercrime cell on Friday arrested a call centre employee in connection with the Rs1 crore e-fraud case.

On Thursday evening, the police had arrested two women, Sime Patil, 28, and her older sister Krusha Rane, 30, along with Yashwant Sawant, 33, for their involvement in the case.

"Sagar Patil, 32, a resident of Goregaon, was arrested. He is the husband of Sime Patil. He was working at a call centre at Goregaon," said an officer from Mulund police station and added that he will be produced before the holiday court on Saturday.

So far, five people have been arrested in the case. The fraudsters had hacked into the accounts of Ankur Korani’s Fiabila India Ltd bank account on January 31 and electronically transferred Rs1 crore to 12 different accounts across the nation within 45 minutes.

Investigation revealed that of the Rs1 crore, Rs4 lakh was transferred to Sime’s Axis Bank account at Mira Road. The police collected CCTV footage from the bank which revealed that Sagar Patil withdrawing Rs3.99 lakh with his wife Sime and sister-in-law Krusha on Thursday.

After withdrawing the money, she handed it over to the two wanted prime accused,who were waiting outside the bank. In return, she got Rs50,000 as commission from them. The police have recovered the commission amount.
A police officer said Sime had allegedly opened the bank account using fake documents as proof.

Further investigation revealed that the fourth accused, Yashwant Sawant, was jobless and had also opened the bank account in a private cooperative bank at Khar (W) with help of forged documents and a bogus PAN card. He is also wanted by the Delhi police in connection with a bank fraud case there.

Sawant, along with Sime and Krusha, have been remanded to police custody till February 14 by the Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court at Mulund on Friday.