Diamond trading company’s bank account hacked, two held

The Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) police have arrested two men from Surat for hacking a diamond trading company’s bank account. After hacking, the accused men transferred Rs 27 lakh in another bank account in series of transactions. Tracing the bank account details, police apprehended two persons, while the search for a third accused is underway.

On November 25, a diamond company’s bank account was hacked and within 20 minutes, the cyber criminals had transferred Rs 27 lakh in another account. The owners of the diamond company immediately approached BKC police station, who registered a case and began the investigation. The account which was used in the crime had fake documents, making it difficult for police to trace the culprits.

Further investigation revealed, after making the transactions from a Mumbaibased account, gold and silver ornaments worth Rs 9 lakh was purchased from a Kandivali based jeweller. The jeweller was paid through an online transaction from the same account. Police said they were keeping a close eye on the account which was used in the crime.

On December 1, an amount of Rs 12 lakh was transferred to a Dhule-based account. When police found the owner of the Dhule-based account, it was revealed the man was a labourer and had given his account details to two men for a few days in return of Rs 21,000. The accused were then identified as Ram Singh Komal Singh Mahesh and Javed Mohammad Sharif, who are Surat residents.

Police then laid a trap for the accused using the labourer as bait. Kalpana Gadekar, senior police inspector of BKC police station said, “We made the labourer call Ram Singh and Javed to collect money from his bank account. The accused fell for the bait and came to receive their money where they were apprehended by the police. We recovered a total of 10 mobile phones, a few cheque books and various bank ATM cards from the accused duo.”