MUMBAI: The South Cybercrime Branch police arrested three persons for their role in helping cyber fraudsters who allegedly induced a 59-year-old South Mumbai retiree into investing in online share trading and cheated him of nearly Rs 7 crore. While investing the money, the victim saw his investment and profit touching Rs 149 crore on the accused persons’ website. Those arrested were Dayanand Suresh Kolekar, 31, Dhanajay Sagvekar, 36, and Sukrut Bhosale, 33. While Kolekar and Bhosale were residents of Bandar Pakhadi, Kandivli (West), Sagvekar resided in Jogeshwari. The complainant sent Rs 6.81 crore to various accounts in 48 transactions from April 11 to May 27. The FIR filed on May 28 invoked charges of cheating and forgery under the BNS, and of identity theft under the IT Act, against 10 persons. The cyber team, led by Senior Inspector Nandkumar Gopale, PI Suresh Bhoye and API Deepak Desle, is probing the case. The accounts provided by the accused received a total of Rs 76 lakh from the victim’s money. Police said that the complainant was forced to transfer Rs 35 lakh and Rs 15 lakh from his two accounts in private banks to an account provided by the wanted accused by promising good profits in the share market. When the information of the said account was obtained from the bank, the police found that the account was in the name of M/s Aluvanta Traders Pvt Ltd in Borivli, and its directors were Kolekar and Sagvekar. Another Rs 26 lakh was transferred to an account registered in the name of the same company and had the same directors. Based on this information and using technical intelligence, the police arrested the accused. Another accused, Bhosale, allegedly helped the two arrested accused in opening these companies. When police raided the company’s address, it was locked. The accused, running it, fled to Rajasthan, police learnt. There are around 15 cases against the wanted accused, police said.
