Navi Mumbai: The joint director of a fintech company located in Vashi Railway Commercial Complex registered an FIR at the Navi Mumbai cyber police station against unidentified persons for siphoning off Rs 1.98 crore from the company’s bank account by hacking the server at the office and bypassing the payment gateway and other systems of the company by unauthorised technical intrusion and without any valid user credentials or authorised OTP consent.
The cyber police team succeeded in freezing Rs 58 lakh transferred by the cyber scammers in different bank accounts. Acting on a complaint by Vinay Kamal Kedia (39), the joint director of VK Venture Pvt Ltd, the police invoked BNS sections for cheating by personation and joint criminal liability along with the Information Technology Act. Vishal Patil, senior inspector of Navi Mumbai Cyber police station, said, “As the complaint was immediately lodged on NCCRP and cyber crime helpline number 1930, it enabled in freezing Rs 58 lakh transferred by the cyber scammers in different bank accounts.
While, we money-trailed the siphoned amount, it has been found that some amount has been withdrawn from several bank accounts where the amount was transferred unauthorisedly. Accordingly, the bank account holders details are being obtained. It is possible that those are mule bank accounts used by cyber fraudsters for parking money.”