Pramesh S Jain
T
he Cyber crime police on Friday busted a racket and arrested a gang of six people who are creating bank account using credentials of the gullible people which would be later used for money transactions related to cyber crime.
The accused operated from a rented house in Mattikere offering money ranging from Rs.5,000 to 10,000 to gullible people in return of sharing details of their credentials including Aadhar and Pan cards,Using this the accused would open bank accounts and share it with cyber crooks to transfer money out of cyber related crimes.
The racket came to light when Manjesh a city based man,was approached by the accused seeking his Aadhar and Pan details in exchange of Rs.10,000.
On suspicion Manjesh went to their house to find hundreds of such documents lying around.
Suspecting something fishy,Manjesh alerted the cyber crime police who raided the house and arrested Sameer,Mohammed Hasan,Amul Babu,Mohamed Irfan, Tanzeel and Manjunath from Kerala.
The accused were working for person who is sitting in Dubai and supervising the operations,B Dayananda Bengaluru City Police Commissioner said.
The police seized around 150 bank accounts which the accused have created and operating for further investigations.
City Police Commissioner,B.Dayananda said that further investigations are on to ascertain the dubious transactions carried out in the seized accounts.
