Police arrest five for running bank accounts used in cyber fraud scheme

Rourkela: Bhasma police arrested five persons on Thursday evening on charges of opening multiple bank accounts in different bank and for giving ATM cards to cyber fraudsters for use in exchange of Rs 10,000 per account. The five arrested men were identified as Nibas Naik (26), Hare Ram Deo (50), Bharat Mahanand (31), Bimal Gardia (39) and Kalakar Tandia (40). Police seized six mobiles and 23 passbook from them.After getting these mule accounts, the cyber criminals diverted funds in these accounts during last few months. During investigation, fraudulent suspicious transactions have been found in these accounts to the tune of lakhs of rupees.While interrogating these five accused, police have come to know that they were going to Kolkata to handover the ATM card and SIM card to an unknown person.“We have started verifying the passbook and call details in the mobile, seized from the five accused to reach the cyber frauds, who were using these mule accounts,” said S Parida, IIC, Town police station.