Seven including bank employee arrested in cybercrime

NEW DELHI: The Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit of the Delhi Police’s Special Cell has arrested seven persons involved in cybercrime, including a contractual employee of a nationalized bank, who opened bank accounts with fictitious addresses which were then sold to other cyber fraudsters.

Interestingly, while the Delhi Police were investigating a particular case and had identified and frozen one of these fraudulent accounts, the suspects sent an email to the bank manager, impersonating as an Investigating Officer from the IFSO unit. They requested the bank to “de-freeze” the account.

DCP (IFSO) Hemant Tiwari said a complaint was filed with the IFSO, stating that the complainant had been defrauded of Rs 91 lakhs under the pretext of lucrative returns from stock or crypto trading.