The Pune police cyber-crime cell on Tuesday arrested eight people who are suspected to have committed fraud worth over ₹216 crore using information of dormant bank accounts of multiple banks. Now a question comes on who are all eight persons and their level of connections with the various bank authorities.
A cyber forensic could revel on the facts including how these persons got accessed to the dormant accounts and connection with the bank authorities and if not bank must say that, they have hacked the banking system.
The police have also issued notices to three others whose roles are yet to be verified, according to the cyber cell officials. Two of the eight arrested were identified as Rohan Ravindra Mankani and Sudhil Shantilal Bhatevara alias Jain. Mankani is a filmmaker, an actor, and the son of filmmaker Ravindra Mankani and also associated with the film wing of a political party and is the son of a veteran film and TV actor.
The police have recovered only ₹25 lakh, along with 11 mobile phones, two cars, one two-wheeler and
data of dormant bank accounts with collective amount of ₹216,29,34,240.87 was recovered from the two.
These arrests are based on preliminary information and we are looking for who all are involved in it. We are investigating it further and we will get to the root of it,” said Bhagyashree Navatake, deputy commissioner of police, cybercrime and Economic offence wing (EOW) of Pune city police.
There could be another fact on, whether it is a case of hacking or someone from the organisation (banks) has leaked the data. Banks these days also outsource the maintenance of their systems to major IT companies; it could have been leaked by their employees too,” said an official of the cybercrime cell.
The eight people were produced in a local court on Tuesday and remanded to police custody until March 20, according to assistant commissioner of police Shivaji Pawar of Pune police cyber-crime cell.
