Two SIM fraudsters held, 3.68 lakh recovered

Hyderabad: Rachakonda Cyber Crime sleuths on Tuesday arrested two SIM swap fraudsters who had fraudulently transferred amount by swapping bank linked mobile SIM card. The accused were identified as M Satyanarayana (48) and P Sri Durga Krishna Prasad (36).

According to police, a complainant S Sandhya's husband S Deepak, had worked as a tax consultant at Muthoj and Co, Income Tax consultant office and expired in 2018 due to ill health.

After demise of her husband, the complainant Sandhya went to bank to complete her spouse's legal formalities, there she came to know that unauthorized transactions have been done and an amount extending to Rs 3,68,056 were withdrawn from her husband's account through IMPS with SIM Swap.

Basing on the complaint, Rachakonda Cyber Crime police registered a case under sections 417, 419, 420 IPC and 66 (C&D) of IT Act. Connecting the dots, police arrested the accused persons M Satyanarayana and P Sri Durga Krishna Prasad who admitted to their crime.

They admitted that they fraudulently had transferred an amount of Rs 3,68,056 from Deepak's account by swapping bank linked mobile SIM card as they already knew the entire personal information of Deepak and fraudulently obtained a new SIM card in the name of the Deepak.

Later they transferred the amounts into various accounts under the disguise. The police recovered the entire amount from their procession. The arrested accused were produced before the court.