Rajkot: Cybercrime police of Kutch (east) arrested two people who had convinced 23 friends and acquaintances to open accounts in different banks, receiving as much as Rs 12.5 crore of unaccounted money in these accounts. Police arrested Narendra alias Hitesh Rajput and Pramod Kumar alias Ashish Jangire, a native of Rajasthan’s Sikar district.
Both live in Gandhidham. Sagar Bagmar, superintendent of police, Kutch (east), said, “We found 23 bank accounts that the duo had asked people to open. Eight people are from Gandhidham and five from Modasa and Ahmedabad.
” The probe revealed the names of two more people - Hashmita Thakkar, a native of Gandhidham living in Ahmedabad, and Raj Dhanvani of Adipur. Police found 14 accounts of Bank of Maharashtra, four of Karnataka Bank, eight passbooks of HDFC, Federal Bank, Axis Bank, Union Bank of India, and AU Small Finance Bank, 14 debit cards, six credit cards, and four SIM cards. The cards were of ICICI Bank, Yes Bank, Axis Bank, Dena Bank, HDFC Bank, and SBI.
Rajput would provide the account details to Jangire, who passed them to Thakkar and Dhanvani. The duo received a commission from Thakkar and Dhanvani in lieu of the accounts. “We are investigating who deposited so much in these accounts and the source of this money,” Bagmar added.
The investigation was initiated after Rajput’s friend Chirag Sadhu lodged a complaint on Sunday stating that the former had convinced him to purchase new SIM cards and open bank accounts in his name. Rajput told him that he had reached the maximum deposit limit in the bank and required a new account for his friend. He had even promised Sadhu a commission from the money deposited.
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