Employee dupes his company of 39L in online fraud, held

Gurgaon: An executive of a private company was arrested for allegedly duping the firm of over Rs 39 lakh. The accused transferred the amount into his wife’s account through online transactions in two days. Police produced the accused in a city court on Saturday and took him on a 5-day police remand. An FIR was registered at Manesar police station on Friday.
As per the police report, Samir Mehta, an official of the private company, located in Sector 7, IMT, Manesar filed a complaint at the cyber cell accusing Arun Kumar, assistant manager (accounts) for embezzling Rs 39,89,571 belonging to the company he worked for. “Arun Kumar (34), a native of Dhabad, Jharkhand had been in our company since February 2016. He was the only one authorised to do all type of money transactions. On March 22 and 23 he transferred the huge amount through an online transaction to his wife’s account. Our investigators found that Kumar had transferred the money in his wife’s account through mobile banking,” the complainant stated in the police report.

The preliminary investigation by the cyber cell also found that Kumar had transferred the money to his wife’s account. An FIR was registered against the accused under relevant sections of the IPC at IMT, industrial police station, Manesar on Friday and police arrested him on Saturday.