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Two held for helping Nigerian fraudsters
City police on Friday arrested two persons who were found providing fake bank accounts to Nigerian fraudsters in large scale. The arrested persons include Aditya Kumar and Parvez Mohammed, both native of Bihar, currently living at Madhapur.
Hyderabad: City police on Friday arrested two persons who were found providing fake bank accounts to Nigerian fraudsters in large scale. The arrested persons include Aditya Kumar and Parvez Mohammed, both native of Bihar, currently living at Madhapur.
Police seized fake voter identity cards, PAN cards, cheque books, pass books, debit cards and mobile phones and froze Rs 10 lakh cash in the accounts opened by the accused.
According to the police, the two accused have opened about 50 savings and current accounts in various banks using fake credentials and provided the account details to their associate Kabir Khan of Bihar living in Delhi. Kabir in turn provided the account numbers for certain commission to Nigerian fraudsters, who used to ask their victims deposit in those accounts.
The Nigerian fraudsters have collected about Rs 2 crore from their victims using the fake accounts provided by the accused, police said.
