Cheating and swindling money through Facebook: Two held in Bengaluru
Operation from Urwa police
Mangaluru, October 03: Urwa police on Tuesday arrested two persons in Bengaluru on charges of blackmailing people by getting their photos after introducing themselves as a woman in Facebook and swindling money from them.
The arrested are identified as Aditya alias Ashwini (19) of Subedarpalya near Yeshwanthpur and Arun H.S (27) of Basaveshwara Nagar in Kanakapura. They were brought to Mangaluru. The accused introduced themselves as Aradhya of Bengaluru to a Mangaluru person. Later, they got a photo from the complainant, threatened him of sending him to jail by producing the photo to the police and blackmailed him for Rs 65,000. After this, they were calling him and demanding for more money. When the case was under investigation, the accused used to call the complainant in the name of senior police officers and politicians and threatening him.
Based on the complaint, the Urwa police arrested the accused near Columbia Hospital in Bengaluru. The police said that the accused have been blackmailing the complainant in the name of Aradhya. Urwa police station inspector Ravish Nayak and staff conducted the operation under the guidance of Commissioner T.R Suresh, DCP Uma Prashanth and Central Sub-Division ACP Uday Nayak.
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3 officials of private banks arrested in Gujarat in Rs 2,500 crore cyber fraud; 20 held so far
Rajkot (PTI): Three officials of leading private banks were arrested for their alleged involvement in a Rs 2,500-crore cyber fraud racket in Gujarat's Rajkot district, bringing the number of those held so far in the case to 20, police said on Monday.
Those arrested were identified as Maulik Kamani, a personal manager at Yes Bank in Padadhari; Kalpesh Dangariya, a manager at Axis Bank in Jamnagar; and Anurag Baldha, a personal banker with HDFC Bank, Rajkot (Rural) Superintendent of Police Vijay Gurjar said.
Dangariya and Baldha were previously employed with Yes Bank, he added.
Kamani allegedly assisted the earlier arrested accused in opening and managing suspicious accounts. He also helped bypass banking alerts triggered by high-value transactions by submitting additional documentation to keep accounts active, the SP said.
Kamani was allegedly involved in cash withdrawals that were later routed through hawala channels (illegal money transfer system), supported by digital evidence recovered from his mobile device, he added.
Dangariya is accused of facilitating the opening of fraudulent accounts using fake or misrepresented identities, police said.
He also assisted in structuring documentation, including Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC)-related papers, to prevent transactions from being flagged as suspicious, they said.
On the other hand, Baldha opened new accounts after verification and certification processes as part of the racket, Gurjar informed.
All the three accused are in police custody, while others are in jail under judicial remand, SP said.
So far, police have identified 85 bank accounts linked to the racket with 535 complaints filed on the cyber crime portal.
The total transaction linked to the cyber fraud exceeds Rs 2,500 crore, police said.
The earlier fraud amount was pegged by police at Rs 1,500 crore.
