1 held for siphoning off NRI's Rs 1.13 crore

SURAT: Navsari police arrested a person on Friday for allegedly withdrawing Rs 1.13 crore from the account of a non-resident Indian after hacking his password. The accused was arrested and brought here on a transfer warrant from Ankleshwar where he was already in custody in connection with another case of cyber crime registered against him.
Ujjwal Ghosh alias Anupam Jha, 30, is a resident of Khanpur village in Malda district of West Bengal.
"We arrested the accused and have begun questioning him," said A P Somaiya, police inspector, Navsari. Police suspect him to be a member of a gang which was involved in phishing racket.
The accused had allegedly transferred Rs 1.13 crore from the bank account of Shirish Durlabh, a resident of Florida in the USA, to several bank accounts in Kolkata.
The money was withdrawn after he and other miscreants obtained the bank account password and other details of Shirish's account with Fuvara branch of ICICI Bank in Navsari by sending him emails.
Police investigation revealed that the accounts in banks in Kolkata had been opened by the miscreants with fake documents.
Meanwhile, Ankleshwar police during questioning found that he had played an important role in transferring the money from Shirish's account. "Ghosh used to open accounts in banks under fake identities and once the money was transferred, he would withdraw the cash and distribute it among other members of his group," Somaiya said.
Police are questioning Ghosh on his methodology of hacking bank accounts and about his accomplices.