Kolkata, Aug 27 — Police officers at the Cyber Police Station in West Bengal's Burdwan district have arrested four fraudsters after receiving allegations of embezzling of lakhs of rupees from people after indulging in cyber fraud, a senior police officer said on Thursday.
The arrests were made on Wednesday based on specific information.
The police officers have already received several sensational information by questioning the arrested.
The Investigating Officers have found 28 suspicious bank accounts.
The investigation has revealed that about 7 lakh rupees of cyber fraud has been deposited in them.
However, the investigating officers are questioning the four arrested persons to find out in whose name the suspicious accounts were opened, who took the money, and where the money was laundered.
The investigating officers are also trying to find out who else is involved in this massive scam.
The four arrested have been identified as Bijoy Debnath, Shivam Biswas, Tarunjit Debnath and Shubho Bala.
The arrested persons live in Champahati and Hatshimala areas of Nadanghat police station in East Burdwan district.
According to the police, the state cyber crime officials sent a report to the Burdwan Cyber Police Station, in which several information was given to the investigators.
It is said that suspicious transactions have been made in some accounts of the Rail Bazar branch of a state-owned bank in Nasratpur at Samudragarh of Nadanghat police station.
Nearly Rs 6,70,000 of cyber fraud has entered 28 bank accounts.
It is also reported that the accounts are linked to more than 60 cyber frauds.
After receiving information in this regard from the state cyber crime, the Burdwan Cyber Police Station started the investigation.
The officials started the investigation by registering a suo motu case.
The names of six Point of Sale (POS) agents came to the fore in the investigation.
The officials even received 268 suspicious mobile numbers. These agents used to give SIM cards with fake documents.
These SIM cards were used for cyber fraud in the name of fake calls, SMS, investment fraud and digital arrest.
The names of the four arrested persons came to the fore as soon as the investigation reached the source. Later, going deeper into the investigation, the investigators collected customer application forms and call details records of the suspicious mobile numbers from the telecom companies.
They even went to the banks and collected documents related to KYC and account opening forms of the suspicious accounts.
In all cases, the names of the four accused came to the fore following which the police arrested the accused from Champahati and Hatshimala areas.