Pune: The Talegaon Dabhade police on Tuesday arrested a delivery person (22) on the charge of selling his colleague’s two ‘payment bank’ accounts and a SIM card, allegedly to accept money from online gaming.“We are also investigating whether these accounts were used for accepting money from the victims of cyber frauds,” said M S Mohare, police sub-inspector of the Talegaon Dabhade police.
Mohare said the victim (21) and the accused are working as delivery persons. According to the complainant, in Nov last year, his colleague promised him Rs 30,000 to allow him to open accounts in different payment banks.“Believing him, the victim opened 2 bank accounts in 2 payment banks in Nov last year. He found that transactions were made from these 2 accounts, but his friend did not give him the money. After the victim did not receive the money, he approached us,” the officer said.Mohare said the police arrested the accused. During the investigations, the accused revealed that he gave the details of these two accounts to two men in Rajasthan. “We are searching for them,” Mohare said.
