Senior police officers informed that the accused then used to show the looted money as a sum earned through sales of the companies that he had floated and paid tax on it, qualifying for money laundering offence
Police have arrested a B.Com graduate from the Delhi University (DU) who used to indulge in ATM frauds and withdraw money by cloning the cards using hi-tech gadgets. Senior police officers informed that the accused then used to show the looted money as a sum earned through sales of the companies that he had floated and paid tax on it, qualifying for money laundering offence.
According to the sources, the Delhi Police might also share details of the accused with the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
The accused, identified as Ravi Kumar Meena, a resident of Nangloi was arrested on February 1. The forgery came to the fore after the complainant, Nitin Kumar, received a message on December 29 that Rs 30,400 has been debited from his account. This was despite the ATM card being with him. CCTV footage of the bank showed that only one person had withdrawn money from the ATM at the specified time.
DCP Northwest, Aslam Khan said that on February 1, the bank manager, who had been apprised about the matter, spotted the suspicious person in the bank and called the police. 47 cloned cards, used by him for withdrawing money, were recovered and Rs 1,13,500 cash was also recovered from him, he said.
When the police teams probed further, it was found that Meena had purchased some devices from abroad and used them to place them strategically on ATM machines to capture data of the ATM.
"He then saved the data on his laptop and used the same to copy on a blank card to make a cloned ATM card. Using these cloned ATM cards, he withdrew money from different account holders. In 2016, the accused made a company in the name of VSIRA Digital OPC Pvt. Ltd. and transferred the cheated amount in the accounts of the company and then transferred the amount to his saving accounts. In 2017, he floated another firm in the name of RK North Enterprises," Khan added.
The accused disclosed that he had gained about Rs 3 crore so far. "During the investigation, he was linked with 11 cases in different parts of Delhi. He was also found linked to several other such complaints received outside Delhi as well. Thousands of other cards have been recovered from him which he could not use due to the arrest," the DCP said.
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The forgery came to the fore after the complainant, Nitin Kumar, received a message on December 29 that Rs 30,400 has been debited from his account.
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