PRESS RELEASE - SPECIAL CELL, DELHI POLICE
12 persons including 3 HDFC bank employees arrested
The fraudsters were involved in attempts to make unauthorized withdrawal from a very high value NRI account
Fraudulently obtained cheque book recovered
Mobile phone number identical to that of account holder’s US based phone number was procured by the fraudsters
66 attempts of unauthorized online transactions made by this group on this high value NRI account
CyPAD, Cyber Crime Unit of Special Cell has busted a racket of fraudsters involved in unauthorized attempts and hacking through internet banking and attempts of withdrawal using fraudulently obtained cheque book of a high valued NRI customer of HDFC Bank. They also procured an Indian mobile phone number identical to the USA’s mobile number of the account holder registered in the KYC. 12 persons including 3 employees of HDFC bank, have been arrested.
HDFC Bank had filed complaint with Cyber Crime Unit of Special Cell alleging therein that there are many unauthorized internet banking attempts noticed in one NRI bank account. Further there have been attempts to withdraw cash from the same account, using the fraudulently obtained cheque book. Attempts were also made to get update mobile phone number in the KYC of the same bank account by replacing the already registered US mobile phone number with similar/identical Indian mobile phone number. HDFC Bank further alleged that in all 66 attempts were made to access the internet banking of the account.
Keeping in view the broader ramifications and continuous different unauthorized attempts of login through internet banking, a dedicated team was constituted under the supervision of Sh. Raman Lamba, ACP/CyPAD comprising of Insprs. Samarpal, Arun Verma, Braham Prakash, Vijender, SIs Manjeet, Madan Mohan, Ashok, Ajeet, Pawan and Dharmender.
The team was tasked to identify the culprits on the basis of technical footprints and human intelligence. On the basis of technical evidence, footprints, and human intelligence, multiple geolocations were identified. In all, raids were conducted at 20 locations across Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. During the course of investigation, in all 12 persons have been arrested. Out of the 12 arrested accused persons, 3 are HDFC bank employees, who were involved in issuing the cheque book, updating the mobile phone number and removing the debt freeze of the account.
Persons arrested: -
1. R. Jaiswal (Age- 31yrs) r/o Ghaziabad, UP
2. G. Sharma (Age-30 yrs) r/o Ghaziabad, UP
3. A. Kumar (Age-35 yrs) r/o Greater Noida, UP
4. A. Tomar (Age-26 yrs) r/o Hapur, UP
5. H.Yadav (Age- 30 yrs) r/o Ghaziabad, UP
6. S.L. Singh (Age- 41 yrs) r/o Bulandshahar, UP
7. S. Tanwar (Age- 34 yrs) r/o Gurgaon, HR
8. N.K. Jatav (Age- 33 yrs) r/o Jhansi UP
9. S. Singh (Age- 40 yrs) r/o Baghpat U.P
10. D. Chaurasiya (Age- 27 yrs) r/o Rai Bareilly, UP (HDFC Employee)
11. A. Singh (Age- 29 yrs) r/o Gonda, UP (HDFC Employee)
12. Female HDFC employee (name withheld)
From the interrogation of the accused persons, it has been revealed that the main mastermind has come to know that the said NRI account is dormant and has huge funds. He along with his associates R. Jaiswal, G. Sharma and A.Singhal had gathered information regarding the account. With the help of one female employee of HDFC, they got issued a cheque book of the said account and also got removed the debt freeze of the account. The investigation has revealed that HDFC bank employee was promised Rs 10 lakhs and insurance business of Rs 15 lakhs (which was target assigned to her by the bank for appraisal). In the earlier instances, there were attempts of withdrawal of money from this account. Two cases were earlier registered one at Ghaziabad, UP and one at Mohali, Punjab.
Thereafter, the cheque book and the mobile phone came in possession of R. Jaiswal, who distributed leaves of cheque book to his other accomplishes for clearance of the cheques with understanding of sharing 50% of the total money withdrawn from the account in lieu of giving consent to the bank over phone on behalf of actual account holder.
D. Chaurasiya and A.Singh (both employee of HDFC bank) had attempted to update the phone number linked in the KYC. Other associates had tried to login to the internet banking of the account for the purpose of transfer of amount.
All these attempts of withdrawal, unauthorized login attempts to internet banking, updating of mobile phone number was only possible due to connivance of the bank employees.
Further raids are in progress and investigation is being carried out.
(K P S Malhotra)
DCP/Cyber Crime,
Special Cell
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