The Cyber Crime Investigation Cell (CCIC) of Visakhapatnam Police arrested two more persons accused in the illegal transfer of Rs. 85 lakh from the bank account of a city-based exporter.
By hacking into the account of complainant, Guntur Venkata Durga Mallikarjuna Rao, Director of Sprint Exports Pvt. Ltd, the inter-state gang siphoned off Rs.72 lakh and Rs.13 lakh separately into five accounts through online transfer.
Accused Dharmesh Kanjibhai Rathod, 48 and Afzal Shah Mohammad Khan, 46, residents of Thane in Maharasthra were summoned by the cyber crime police and produced in court on Saturday after their arrest.
The police had arrested Nayeem Abdul Karim Khully and Ajit Gopala Krishna Prabhu, were arrested a few weeks ago.
Cyber Crime Inspector K. Satyanarayana Rao said the gang hacked the password and user ID of Mr. Mallikarjuna Rao through proxy servers and transferred Rs. 73 lakh from one account and Rs.13 lakh from another to five different accounts in October last year.
The accused had also obtained duplicate SIM card of the complainant to receive One Time Password (OTP). Following over six months of investigation, the police nabbed all the members of the gang.
The complainant earlier had alleged that during routine check, they found that amount from their bank accounts had been transferred to ‘unknown’ accounts without their knowledge through fraudulent way.
