The Mattancherry police have arrested a native of Amritsar from Mumbai on charges of online fraud.
The arrested has been identified as Samir Ramesh Saigal alias Jeevan Kamal Khanna. According to police, Saigal hacked the e-mail ID of a seafood exporting firm in Alappuzha, put an online request using the e-mail to the UCO bank in Mattancherry to transfer Rs 5.8 lakh to an ICICI bank account at its Kamothe branch in Navi Mumbai in the name of a firm titled Lovely Enterprises.
The accused is a key member of a gang that has committed similar online frauds in Maharashtra and Gujarat. They have been using fake PAN cards, Aadhar cards and other identity proofs to commit the fraud, said Mattancherry police. The Cyber Cell CIDs of the Mumbai police had arrested other members in the gang last week.
