Man opens 35 banks accounts for relatives, PNB manager unearths cyber fraud racket

Das observed that a lawsuit was frequenting the branch, accompanying a antithetic idiosyncratic each clip and helping them unfastened a slope account.

Since determination was a important summation successful the fig of complaints received from the bank’s office regarding cyber fraud linked to slope accounts from the Kurla branch, Das discussed the contented with his subordinate officer, Raviraj Gaikwad. Gaikwad said helium excessively had been observing Maniyar, who helium said could beryllium a nexus to the cyber fraud cases.

Das’s suspicion deepened, and connected November 19, erstwhile the said lawsuit visited the slope again, Das called him successful his bureau and asked him wherefore helium was frequenting the branch.

The idiosyncratic identified himself arsenic Amir Maniyar, explained that helium has an export business, and the radical helium was helping unfastened accounts were his relatives. He needed their accounts for his business, the constabulary ailment said.

On further inquiry, Maniyar told Das that helium had truthful acold helped 10 relatives. On Das’s instructions, Maniyar wrote details of these slope accounts successful Das’s diary, which helium cross-checked with the complaints received from the bank’s headquarters.

Das recovered the sanction Amir Shaikh mentioned successful the cyber fraud ailment registered astatine a constabulary presumption successful Bangalore, and the aforesaid idiosyncratic besides held 1 of the 10 accounts of which Maniyar had shared details.

Das past confronted Maniyar, saying the accounts helium had opened were utilized successful cyber frauds. Maniyar refuted the allegations and said helium had not done thing wrong, the constabulary ailment stated.

Das called up the constabulary and asked his slope officers to excavation deeper and find retired details of each accounts opened with Maniyar’s help. Das discovered that since September, Maniyar had managed to get 35 accounts opened successful the branch, for which VISA cards excessively had been issued.

“Upon examining transactions connected these accounts, I observed suspicious fiscal transactions and predominant ATM withdrawals from overseas locations,” Das states successful the FIR. Having confirmed his suspicions, Das filed an authoritative ailment and Kurla constabulary registered an FIR.

“We are inactive investigating, and we person sought documents from the slope to verify the allegations. No apprehension has been made yet. We volition summon the accused erstwhile we request to analyse further,” said Pramod Toradmal, elder inspector of Kurla constabulary station.
The complainant slope manager Sanjay Kumar Ram Das did not respond to telephone calls and messages.