Alwar bank conmen by US agency for credit card fraud

wanted Alwar bank conmen by US agency for credit card fraud

JAIPUR/ALWAR: Investigations into the Rs 16-crore

embezzlement case

has revealed more shocking facts about 37-year-old

BBA graduate

Abhishek Joshi and his father Ashok Joshi on Thursday.

Sleuths of the special operations group (SOG) investigating the case said that the two were wanted by federal agency in the US for allegedly stealing identities of people (names, addresses and other personal details) and making credit cards on stolen identities. The fatherson duo had set up a fake travel company through which they cheated thousands of customers.

A day after unearthing their involvement in the embezzlement racket at Alwar's Urban Cooperative Bank, the SOG produced all the five accused before a local court in Alwar and took them into police custody for six days till December 27.

Officers investigating the case were stunned to find out that the US federal agency had arrested four people in the online identity theft case and that

Abhishek Joshi

and his father Ashok Joshi were still at large.

“We will write to the agency and brief them about our case,“ said Dinesh M N, inspector general of police, SOG, on Thursday. Prior to this online fraud, the Delhi police had also launched a massive manhunt for Abhishek and his father who had allegedly duped thousands of people and cheated the ICICI Bank to the tune of Rs 3.3 crore.

“The fraud came to the notice of the economic offences wing of the Delhi police in 2010 when several customers wrote to the bank regarding a fraudulent travel website cheating them of their money.

They had used credit cards to book their tickets, which had since been blocked. Though the money was withdrawn from their bank accounts, the tickets never arrived,“ said a senior officer of the SOG.

In the FIR filed in Delhi, the ICICI bank official had stated that the bank had suffered a loss of Rs 3.3 crore.

Meanwhile, the enforcement directorate (ED) has served notices to five officers of the Alwar bank. They have sought details of transactions carried out by the bank over the last 10 years.

Following the scam, customers of the bank were left in the lurch and could not withdraw money.

Rs 13,000 looted from elderly woman

An elderly women who withdrew Rs 13,000 after spending seven hours in queue at two banks finally had to go empty handed at Khudi village in Fathepur. According to police, the women left her village early in the morning and reached Fathepur at 9 am.She went to a brach of Canara bank first and stood in a queue. After spending long four hours in the queue, she managed to withdraw Rs 5,000 by 1 pm. Then she went to a brach of Bank of Baroda to withdraw Rs 8,000 from her old age pension account.While stepping out of the bank, she noticed that somebody had managed to make a cut in her plastic bag and took all the money away.She said told police that while in one bank her son had a salary account, the other one was her pension account.Police is now looking for the culprits based on CCTV footage.