A bank employee working at IndusInd Bank has been arrested in Faridabad for being involved in a fraud case of over ₹35 lakh, police said on Saturday. The arrested person has been identified as Ayushman, who lives in Shiv Durga Vihar, Faridabad.
According to the police, the case goes back to July last year when a man filed a complaint saying he was cheated out of ₹35.69 lakh. The victim was tricked into making fake investments in the share market. After the complaint, the Cyber Crime Police Station (East) registered an FIR and started an investigation.
When Ayushman was questioned by the police, he admitted that he had opened a bank account using the name of a fake company. Out of the total defrauded amount, ₹1,21,200 was transferred into this fake account.
According to ACP Cyber Vikas Kaushik, Ayushman was paid ₹20,000 for every bank account he helped open for fraudulent purposes.
Police also mentioned that this is not the first arrest in this case. Another bank employee, Harinder Bhati, had already been arrested in November last year for being involved in the same fraud.
This case highlights how bank employees were misusing their positions to support cybercriminals by opening fake accounts, making it easier to cheat people out of large sums of money.
