A Nigerian was among three persons arrested for allegedly hacking bank accounts and siphoning off crores of rupees, police said today.
Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Nigerian national Anthony Chienedu (34), Saket Anand (21) and Ujjawal Anand (21) from East Delhi's Laxmi Nagar on Monday.
As many as 136 SIM cards, five data cards, as many five pen drives, one PC containing stolen data of around one crore people, three laptops and a number of fake debit/credit Cards were recovered from their possession.
The racket came under police scanner after Arun Aggarwal, a resident of South Extension, approached them on August 2 and registered a complaint stating that Rs 1.65 lakh had been fraudulently transferred from his account to unknown accounts through net banking.
"During investigation, police found that the money was transferred to five different bank accounts of Bhagalpur in Bihar and all the transferred money was withdrawn within an hour. A police team was sent to Bhagalpur immediately," said Additional Deputy Commissioner of police (South) P S Kushwah.
"The police team found that all the addresses were correct but the account holders were not residing on these addresses," he said.
Police zeroed on Saket and Ujjawal, who are residents of Bhagalpur and was living in Laxmi Nagar, and apprehended them.
During interrogation, they confessed to have committed the crime. At their instance, the Nigerian was arrested from Dabri Extension. Anthony Chienedu told police he has cheated around 100 people by adopting the same modus operandi.
