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Two sisters, aide arrested for Rs1cr online fraud
The Mulund police with the help of cyber crime branch officials on Thursday night nabbed three persons, including two sisters, from different parts of Mumbai in connection with a Rs1 crore e-fraud case.
Updated : Feb 07, 2013, 11:18 PM IST
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The Mulund police with the help of cyber crime branch officials on Thursday night nabbed three persons, including two sisters, from different parts of Mumbai in connection with a Rs1 crore e-fraud case.
“The accused persons, from whom Rs50,000 cash has been recovered, have been identified as Sime Patil (28) and her elder sister Krusha Rane (30), and Yashwant Sawant (33),” said JJ Jadhav, senior police inspector of Mulund police station. The trio would be produced before a Mulund court on Friday.
During interrogation, Sime Patil revealed that she had received Rs4 lakh in her bank account. Out of that, she withdrew Rs3.99 lakh and gave it to two persons. For this, she had received Rs50,000 as commission.
Patil’s sister Krusha Rane too did the same and got Rs50,000. She had received Rs3.5 lakh out of which she withdrew Rs3.45 lakh and handed over the money to the same duo.
A manhunt has been launched to nab the two, said Jadhav, adding that Yashwant Sawant had received Rs70 lakh in his account.
A total of four persons, including these three, have been arrested so far in the e-fraud case. Earlier, the Mulund police had arrested Troy Pereira, 27, a second hand car dealer and a resident of Manikpur in Vasai on February 1 for allegedly withdrawing Rs20,000 from a nationalised bank at Vasai (West). Out of the 12 accounts which were used in the fraud, one was belonging to Pereira to which Rs30 lakh was transferred. He will be in the Mulund police custody till February 9.
The fraudsters had hacked into the accounts of Ankur Korani’s Fiabila India Ltd on January 31 and electronically transferred Rs1 crore to 12 different accounts across the nation.
On learning it, Korani went to the cyber crime police station at BKC where he was directed to lodge a complaint at the Mulund police station. The Mulund police station immediately registered an FIR. Later, the police got in touch with the banks to which the money was transferred illegally. They requested the respective branch managers to freeze the accounts and also catch whosoever visited the banks to withdraw the money.
