Updated on: 10th July 2023 02:42 PM IST | Mumbai
S S Nadar | news@debotimes.in

An officer said the director of a south Mumbai-based pharmaceutical company had approached the police in the last week of June after he found that Rs 19 lakh had been illegally transferred from their business account.

The Mumbai police arrested two persons from Rajasthan in connection with a case where Rs 19 lakh was fraudulently transferred from a business account of a south Mumbai trader. The police found that the two accused were using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) device to hide their location.

An officer said the director of a south Mumbai-based pharmaceutical company had approached the police in the last week of June after he found that Rs 19 lakh had been illegally transferred from their business account. The complainant said that in spite of not having made any transfer, the net banking facility had been illegally used to make the transfer.

The south region cyber police station took over the probe and began an investigation. During the probe, it came to light that the transfer had been made by accessing the internet through the mobile phone of a Rajasthan-based person.

A police team then left for Jaipur and traced the person, identified as Satyender Rajawat (44) and his partner Mukesh Choudhary (35), both e-commerce businessmen. The police found that the accused had been using VPN from another service provider in order to hide the location from where the transfers were made.

The police issued a notice to the accused asking them to appear before them in Mumbai. When the duo appeared before the south region cyber police, the police, following interrogation, decided to place them under arrest for custodial interrogation. The two accused were produced before a holiday court and remanded to police custody.

While seeking their custody, the police said they were yet to recover the money they had transferred and also identify the other accused who are involved in the scam.