Jaipur: Employees of different private banks are under the scanner of Jaipur police for allegedly opening accounts of college students by giving them Rs 10,000.
Additional commissioner of police (crime) Kailash Chand Bishnoi said police on Friday busted a gang, including bank employees, who set up bank accounts for Mewat-based cyber crooks. “The subsequent investigation revealed that bank employees lured students by offering them Rs 10,000 to use their identification details to open bank accounts. These accounts were then used for crimes like sextortion,” Bishnoi said.
He said while two accused private bank employees were held last week, some other staffers of different banks are also under the scanner. “The bank employees mislead unsuspecting students. Once the accounts were set up, the accused moved money obtained through illegal activities into those accounts,” Bishnoi said.
Police said the accused had set up as many as 100 accounts in different banks across the city. The racket was busted when Radhey Shyam (22), a bank clerk, appeared before the police last week. He said some accused forced him to open over 20 bank accounts and now were threatening his family. “We learnt that he (Yadav) was also part of the chain that led all the way to the Mewat-based gang,” Bishnoi said.
Cops rounded up Shyam for interrogation and found the accused was working with the ringleader of a sextortion racket identified as Saad Khan. Police said that they have arrested arrested Khan (24), and his associates Bahadur Singh (28), Bhanu Singh (25), Shantanu Kumar Sharma, and Kunal Singh Choudhary, all residents of Bharatpur along with Govindgarh resident, Raju Kumar (27). TNN
Additional commissioner of police (crime) Kailash Chand Bishnoi said police on Friday busted a gang, including bank employees, who set up bank accounts for Mewat-based cyber crooks. “The subsequent investigation revealed that bank employees lured students by offering them Rs 10,000 to use their identification details to open bank accounts. These accounts were then used for crimes like sextortion,” Bishnoi said.
He said while two accused private bank employees were held last week, some other staffers of different banks are also under the scanner. “The bank employees mislead unsuspecting students. Once the accounts were set up, the accused moved money obtained through illegal activities into those accounts,” Bishnoi said.
Police said the accused had set up as many as 100 accounts in different banks across the city. The racket was busted when Radhey Shyam (22), a bank clerk, appeared before the police last week. He said some accused forced him to open over 20 bank accounts and now were threatening his family. “We learnt that he (Yadav) was also part of the chain that led all the way to the Mewat-based gang,” Bishnoi said.
Cops rounded up Shyam for interrogation and found the accused was working with the ringleader of a sextortion racket identified as Saad Khan. Police said that they have arrested arrested Khan (24), and his associates Bahadur Singh (28), Bhanu Singh (25), Shantanu Kumar Sharma, and Kunal Singh Choudhary, all residents of Bharatpur along with Govindgarh resident, Raju Kumar (27). TNN
