Pimpri Chinchwad cyber police arrest two accused involved in online share trading fraud
Pune: Pimpri Chinchwad cyber police have arrested a hotelier from Goa and a businessman’s son from Kolkata in connection with an online share-trading fraud in which a 22-year-old resident of Chikhali lost Rs84 lakh. A police team led by senior police inspector Ravikiran Nale arrested the accused, Abhishek Acharekar (34) of Goa and Anmol Sharma (32) of Kolkata. Police investigations revealed that Acharekar had procured more than 50 bank accounts from citizens by promising them loans. Swami said investigations revealed that Rs 3 lakh of the fraud amount was transferred to a joint bank account in Goa.
The officer said that during sustained questioning, Acharekar admitted to accepting amounts from cyberfraudsters in the bank accounts and revealed the name of Sharma.
“Investigations so far have revealed that transactions worth over Rs100 crore were made through these mule bank accounts,” assistant police inspector Pravin Swami of the Pimpri Chinchwad cyber police said. With the help of technical investigations, our team located him at Khed Shivapur recently and arrested him,” Swami said. Sharma’s father is a businessman from Kolkata,” the officer said.
He handed these accounts over to Sharma. Acharekar was one of the account holders. “He owned a few hotels in Goa. He was untraceable. “PSI Prakash Katkade and his team took Sharma into custody from Kolkata with the help of the local police.