Gang hacks mails, steals money, held

Kingpin ‘Innocent’ from Nigeria is still at large

A six-member inter-state gang was arrested by the Cyber Crimes Cell of Cyberabad for hacking company emails via phishing, collecting internet banking credentials and transferring funds.

The Nigerian kingpin behind the whole scam, Ebigbo Innocent alias James, is still at large.

The arrested gang members from Kolkata were identified as Odafe Henry, 25, native of Nigeria; Santosh Benerjee, 52; Ankan Saha, 31; Rajat Kundu, 35; Chandan Verma, 42; and Sanjib Das, 38.

Officials seized 17 cellphones, a laptop, three hard disks, a passport, two facsimile rubber stamps, three cheque books, three pass books, six debit cards, two Aadhaar cards, a PAN card and a lamination machine from them.

The racket was unearthed after Pantham Venkata Krishna lodged a complaint on December 18, 2018. “He said he held two accounts with South Indian Bank’s Suchitra branch, under the name of M/s Elim Chemicals and M/s Shalom Chemical Industries,” said the Police Commissioner of Cyberabad, Mr V.C. Sajjanar. “Around 8 pm on December 15, the mobile network connection to his mobile phone was disconnected. Two days later he got to know that `5 lakh had been transferred from the M/s Elim Chemicals account and `4 Lakh

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THE TARGETS Dave Implex, Kolkata: `25 lakh

SKS Enterprises & Kartik Enterprises, Chennai: `25 lakh

Institute of Silicon Systems Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad: `24 lakh

Elim Chemicals