Duo who created fake bank a/cs for e-fraudsters held

Mumbai: Two men were arrested recently for allegedly helping scamsters with bank accounts that were used to park funds siphoned from victims of online frauds. The arrested men, Wadala resident Azhar Ansari (21) and Antop Hill resident

Rajkumar Pandey

(37) were caught when the Central Cyber Police initiated a probe on a complaint by a 39-year-old woman who was duped of Rs 45 lakh by a man who introduced himself as an NRI employed in the UK. The two had met through a matrimonial site.The two arrested men got a commission for allowing the fraudster to park his funds in the bank account. The arrested men had created 43 bank accounts using documents that belonged to people who were unaware that their documents were misused to open accounts.The cyber police said they were probing the case of matrimonial fraud and came across the bank account to which the woman had remitted the funds. “While verifying account details, we found that the account had been opened using forged documents like 20 Aadhar cards and 23 Pan cards. Pandey, who has a business of making Aadhar cards along with his aide Ansari, was involved in the fraud to create bank accounts for fraudsters,” said Central Cyber police senior inspector

Kishore Shinde

.