
Bank employees involved in cyber fraud are being investigated by the police. They are trying to gather information about how many fraudulent accounts were opened by the accused and how much they were sold for. On Monday, the police took the accused to court and got permission to keep them in police custody for four days.
A manager named Mukim, who worked at the Lajpat Nagar Delhi branch of Yes Bank, was arrested on Sunday night. He used to work at the Chhatarpur branch and, along with two colleagues, opened these fraudulent accounts and sold them to criminals. Two other people named Roshan and Anikesh, who currently work as sales officers at the Chhatarpur branch, were involved as well. The investigation has revealed that they sold 12 accounts. The person who bought the accounts is from Bareilly and already knew Mukim.
The person from Bareilly then sold the accounts to others. The police are trying to gather information about this person. This is the second case in the last week where bank employees have been involved in cyber fraud. Previously, on February 27, the Gurugram Police arrested three people named Mohit Rathi, Mahesh Kumar, and Vishwakarma Maurya from Kotak Mahindra Bank for cyber fraud. Before this, there was another case where fake bank accounts were opened for rent in Manesar, and the police took action against three people involved.
Last year, the police had taken action against cyber criminals in Nuh. Now, they are investigating the involvement of bank managers in cyber fraud. It has been discovered that the accused have opened around two thousand accounts, and more than 80 of these accounts have been used for fraudulent transfers. The three individuals arrested from Kotak Mahindra Bank, Mohit Rathi, Mahesh Kumar, and Vishwakarma Maurya, joined the bank around eight months ago.
The police are also gathering information about other people who might be connected to them in order to find out more about fake bank accounts.