ICICI Bank manager in instant loan app case held in Kolkata

The Cyber Crime Police, CCS Hyberabad Police arrested the bank manager who is the prime accused in the unfreezing of bank accounts in the instant loan app case.

By Newsmeter Network  Published on  30 Aug 2021 2:27 PM GMT
ICICI Bank manager in instant loan app case held in Kolkata

Hyderabad: The Cyber Crime Police, CCS Hyberabad Police arrested the bank manager who is the prime accused in the unfreezing of bank accounts in the instant loan app case. According to the case, Rakesh Kumar Das, former manager at the ICICI Bank Alipore branch, Kolkata, was instrumental in the unfreezing the ICICI bank accounts of the co-accused in the case by submitting forged notices and transferred Rs 1,18,70,779 to other bank accounts for a commission.

The case came to light after the regional manager of ICICI Bank, Gachibowli, lodged a complaint on a person who impersonated an SI from Kolkata and submitted forged notices asking to unfreeze certain ICICI bank accounts that were frozen in the instant loan app case in Cr No 2342/2020. After the paperwork went through the person transferred Rs 1.18 crores to an SBI account, for which a case in Cr No 1015/2021, U/s 66 D ITA Act and Sec 419, 420, 468, 471 IPC was registered.

During the course of investigation, the beneficiary SBI account holders, Anand Jannu and Nallamothu Anil Kumar, were arrested on 2 June, 2021 and 12 June respectively and were remanded to judicial custody. Rakesh Kumar Das who was at large in this case was now arrested at West Bengal by the team lead by D. Prashanth, Inspector of Police under the supervision of K.V.M. Prasad, assistant commissioner of Police, Cyber Crime Police, CCS, DD, Hyderabad City. He was brought to the city on transit warrant and produced before the XII ACMM court, Nampally for judicial custody.

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