While the computer crime was investigating, the Central Crime (CCB) branch tied up the Gang Four for creating Mule accounts that helped cyber fraudsters avert fraudulent money to these accounts.
According to the Commissioner of the Municipal Police Seemanth Kumar Singh, the accused allegedly abused the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises to open bank accounts in the name of daily wage workers, which were then misused for cyber crimes.
With arresting CCB officials, more than 357 bank accounts were delivered to cyber criminals that have been used as gaps for allegedly laundering yield from computer criminals. The probe also revealed the suspicious involvement of some banking officials in fraud that is being examined.
The accused were identified as Lakshmeesh N, 33, an agent for the renewal of the loan; Prakash H, 43, private employee of the company; Sunil Kumar, 45 years, unemployed youth; and puttaswamy, 54, car driver. The defendant hail from Bengalur and around and the probe is found to find out their bindings with a network of cyber crime.
Initial investigation revealed that the accusations were lured by strenuous people and used their credentials to open bank accounts. The accused would take banking data, including debit cards, and operated it himself. The accused would also share a small amount of profits with account holders per month for a kindness for kindness, said Mr. Singh.
“For each transaction 1 Lakh 1 account owners received 4,000 ₹ as a commission. We are taking place if the holders of bank accounts were also involved. Some of the seized bound accounts are also tied to Shell companies,” Mr. Singh said.
The CCB also found that transactions in the amount of rupees from the bank accounts were registered and more than 100 cases have been registered throughout the country for the National Portal for Computer Crime (NCRP), where these accounts were marked.
The police also suspect that the involvement of several more in the rocket and the effort to monitor them to detect their involvement. Officials also received a notebook, four mobile phones and several bank accounts and controlled books and were analyzed for further investigation.
Published – 2 July 2025 01:01 IS
