Uttar Pradesh
5, including 2 UP govt officials, arrested in bank fraud case
Lucknow: Five people, including two Uttar Pradesh government officials, have been arrested for allegedly defrauding a cooperative bank of Rs 146 crore, media reports said.
The accused hacked the server of Uttar Pradesh Cooperative Bank, Lucknow and stole the user ids and passwords of the manager and the cashier, according to a report in the media.
The Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh Police arrested the group from Baans Mandi near polytechnic crossing in Lucknow on Monday night.
The STF sleuths confiscated a bank ID card, 25 sets of Aadhaar cards and signed blank cheques, and seven ATM cards among other incriminating articles from their possession, said the report.
The scam emerged after the Assistant General Manager at the bank's headquarters filed an FIR alleging that Rs 146 crore had been transferred via RTGS from seven bank accounts of district cooperative banks opened in an unauthorised manner.
During the investigation it was found that the server of the Cooperative Bank in Hazratganj, Lucknow was hacked, and the money transferred to different bank accounts in ICICI and HDFC banks.
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