SURAT: Yasin Patel, living in Rander area, got a shock when he received an SMS alert that Rs 72,300 were debited from his account in a nationalized bank. Similarly, Pinakin Parmar, also living on Rander Road, lost Rs 42,500 on Saturday.
In no time, complaints began trickling in at Rander police station on Saturday that 17 persons had lost cash from their bank accounts. The money was stolen from their ATMs on Saturday and all together they lost Rs 3.97 lakh in cash.
Police were also puzzled when they received the complaints as victims were residents of different areas, but the cash was withdrawn from their ATMs in Rander police station area. These 17 people have accounts in eight branches of different banks. Majority of the customers were of a nationalized bank's Navyug College branch where seven customers lost cash.
The cash was withdrawn from these accounts on Friday evening, police said.
Faiyaz Pathan, operating manager in 108 ambulance network and resident of Ankleshwar received an SMS that cash Rs 7,000 has been withdrawn from his bank account through an ATM in Rander area. He checked with the bank in the morning and was informed that cash was withdrawn using his debit card.
Pathan approached police on Saturday evening. After initial investigation, police lodged Pathan's complaint and other victims were made co-complainants in the case. City's cyber crime cell has also joined Rander police in the investigation.
So far, investigation revealed that a youth stayed in an ATM for around 20 minutes. His face is not clearly visible since he had covered it with a handkerchief. Locals around the ATM told police that two youths in a sedan car were spotted exchanging the cash. They also had a heated argument over sharing the money.
"We have got specific details about the modus operandi of the miscreants. The cash has been stolen from the bank accounts using cloned debit card. We will crack the case soon," said R A Munshi, assistant commissioner of police, G-division
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2 held for Rs 60-cr bank fraud
The special cell of the Kolkata Police detective department raided a hideout in central Kolkata and arrested Debabrata Dey and Rajkumar Roy Chowdhury. Probe revealed that the duo posed as bank employees and offered higher rate of interest to the co-operative bank against their FDs.
WBSCB parked Rs 20 crore each with the Hare Street branch of UCO Bank, the Hazra Road branch of Indian Overseas Bank and the Selimpore branch of Punjab National Bank.
Earlier this month, WBSCB applied for premature withdrawal of the Rs 20-crore term deposit with UCO Bank after an alleged Rs 120-crore fraud with WBIDFC came into focus. It was then that the co-operative bank found the certificate it received was forged. Certificates with Indian Overseas Brank and Punjab National Bank also turned out to be fake.
While the WBSCB's official did not respond to repeated calls, an official with the bank said, "We have asked the state government to ensure recasting a Rs 400-crore loan given to BENFED, CONFED and ECSC in 2010. That is the only way we can survive."
Hit hard by a Rs 60-crore fraud, the West Bengal State Co-operative Bank is desperately looking at the cash-strapped Mamata Banerjee government to bail it out from an impending crash.
A close look at the bank's balance sheet reveals that it suffered a net loss to the tune of Rs 59.87 crore in 2011-12 because of higher provisioning towards loans given to BENFED, CONFED and West Bengal Essential Commodities Supply Corporation Ltd.
Earlier, six persons, including a state government employee and a Bank of India official, had been arrested for allegedly duping two state government agencies of more than Rs 20 crore. A large number of forged documents were also seized.
In December last year, the detective department of the city police received a complaint from the West Bengal Agriculture Marketing Road stating that a representative of Bank of India approached them with huge interest on fixed deposits and duped them of Rs 17 crore following which two persons were arrested. On January 25, police received a similar complaint from the University of Animals and Fisheries Science where the university had been duped of Rs 5 crore.
Man poses as bank staff, dupes exec of Rs. 26,000-Hindustand Times
In a case of credit card fraud, an unidentified man posing as a manager of a private bank duped an executive of a automobile company of Rs. 26,000 in February this year.
A case under the IT Act was registered in the Sector-10A police station on Saturday after investigation was conducted by the Cyber Crime Cell in Gurgaon.
According to the police, Dharmendra Purohit, deputy manager of an automobile company in Dharuheda and a resident of Sector 9A, said that he had an account with
ICICI Bank and a credit card with the same bank.
According to the police, Dharmendra Purohit, deputy manager of an automobile company in Dharuheda and a resident of Sector 9A, said that he had an account with
ICICI Bank and a credit card with the same bank.
On February 24, he received a call and the caller introduced himself as a bank employee.
He claimed that Purohit’s credit card was being used by an unknown person and he needs to get his card blocked.
The victim fell prey and revealed his card number and password. After a few minutes, Purohit received a text message on his mobile that an amount of R26,587 has been transferred from his account.
The victim fell prey and revealed his card number and password. After a few minutes, Purohit received a text message on his mobile that an amount of R26,587 has been transferred from his account.
The bank informed him that the accused had tried to withdraw R60,000 from his account but did not succeed due to low credit.
The police are conducting raids to arrest the accused.
The police are conducting raids to arrest the accused.
3 of family held for Rs 1-cr bank fraud-Times of India
BHUBANESWAR: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch here on Thursday arrested three members of a family for allegedly forging documents and availing loans to the tune of Rs 1 crore from different banks in Cuttack.
The accused, Kesab Chandra Das, wife Pusparani and son Soumitra, were arrested from their house in Cuttack. So far, the EOW has found their involvement in two banking frauds.
While the couple had jointly availed Rs 14 lakh housing loan by furnishing fake documents in a bank in 2003, their son took Rs 6 lakh loan from the same bank in 2009 using the same tactic. The son wanted to open an automobile spare parts shop," said EOW's DIG Rajesh Kumar.
The bank lodged a complaint with Crime Branch on July 7, 2012, after the accused became defaulters. "During internal audit, the bank came to know that the accused produced fake documents," Kumar said. "During inquiry we came to know that the accused were involved in loan fraud cases worth over Rs 1 crore in some other banks," Kumar added.
Police sources said the EOW is planning to bring the accused on remand for further questioning and recovery of the money. The EOW officials said they would also question functionaries of the banks whether any of their employees was involved in the fraud. "Involvement of bank staff cannot be ruled out," Kumar said.
Police sources revealed Soumitra was earlier booked in a cheating case in Cuttack. His father was working as an agent in a regional transport office.
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