The Mangaluru City Police have arrested five persons from Hyderabad and one from Mangaluru. They were accused of providing mule bank accounts to fraudsters based overseas, for use in investment and other cyber frauds. As many as 30 accounts, connected to 272 cases of cyber fraud, were found.
Police gave the names of the arrested persons as Sheikh Karimulla alias Rasul, 27, from Nellore, Andhra Pradesh; Budidinne Vamshi alias Guru, 21, from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh; Panditi Kranti Kumar, 36, from Hyderabad; Bade Shrinivas, 38, from Hyderabad; Utpala Santosh Krishna, 35, from Nellore, Andhra Pradesh; and Ibrahim, 35, from Mulky, Mangaluru.
In the complaint to Cyber Economic and Narcotic (CEN) Crime Station, one Mohammed Iqbal from Bunder, Mangaluru, said he had given his current account to the accused, Ibrahim, to use for business activities. Iqbal had given Ibrahim his passbook, cheque book, and the sim card linked to the current account. After finding that Ibrahim had allowed the use of the account for cyber fraud, he filed a complaint with the CEN Police seeking action against Ibrahim.
The investigation by the CEN Police revealed that the current account being used by Ibrahim was linked to five cybercrime cases.
