Hyderabad: Fraudster who swindled Rs 1.1 crore from frozen accounts arrested

HYDERABAD: Cyber crime sleuths of Hyderabad arrested the main accused who posed as a cop and siphoned off Rs 1.18 crore after unfreezing some bank accounts of Kolkata ICICI bank’s branch.
The accused is Nallamothu Anil Kumar, from Mumbai. In April 2021, Anil Kumar went to Alipore branch of ICICI bank in Kolkata posing as a cop.
He gave a fake letter saying that the officer in-charge, cyber cell police, Lal Bazaar, Kolkata, has directed the bank to unfreeze 12 accounts and transfer the amount to an SBI account in the name of Anand Jannu in Hyderabad.
As soon as the bank officials transferred Rs 1.18 crore to the SBI account, the accused transferred it to multiple accounts at various places and withdrawn the amount immediately, police said.
Based on the complaint of ICICI bank, Hyderabad cyber crime police registered a case and arrested Anand Jannu on June 2. Anand told police that he received only Rs 1 lakh from the main accused. Police team subsequently, went to West Bengal and arrested Anil Kumar few days ago.
He was brought to Hyderabad on a transit warrant and remanded in judicial custody on Monday. “We have seized Rs 2 lakh cash, eight debit cards, three cheque books, three mobile phones and a laptop from the accused,” ACP KVM Prasad said.
Anil Kumar was earlier arrested in January 2015 by Cyber crime police for providing bank accounts to Nigerian cyber crime gangs to transfer the proceeds of fraudulent transactions for commission.