Man swindles `18 lakh from firm’s a/c posing as director

Trichy: A man impersonating as director of a company contacted a bank over phone and managed to transfer more than `18 lakh from the company’s account to two accounts in December. Cybercrime police attached to the city police launched an investigation into the matter on Monday after the company’s GM filed a complaint in this regard.

In his complaint, general manager Jeganathan of the private limited company situated on Race Course Road said they hold an account with Indian Overseas Bank, Cantonment branch. On December 16, when he checked the bank statement, he found `18,28,452 debited from the account to two accounts the previous evening. He was stunned because it was not done by the company.

He called up the manager and assistant manager and asked them about the debit transfer of such a big amount to unknown accounts, but they pleaded ignorance.

According to the complaint, the company has five directors, Thirunavukkarasu, Baskaran, G M Sivakumar, Srinivasan and Archana on its board. Thirunavukkarasu and Baskaran are vested with powers of signing the cheques of their bank accounts.

When he inquired with the bank, the managers told him that they received a call from a mobile number on December 15.

The caller introduced himself as board member Srinivasan and placed a request for transferring `18.28 lakh to two accounts through real-time gross settlement (RTGS).

“Believing the caller, the managers transferred `8.96 lakh to the account name Nilkinta Pal in ICICI bank and Gulafam in IndusInd Bank,” said Jaganathan in his complaint lodged through the national cybercrime reporting portal (NCRP).

He requested the police to initiate action against those behind the cheating.

Acting on the complaint, police registered a case against unidentified persons on charges of cheating and impersonation under sections of IPC and Information Technology (IT) Act.

Police are also looking into the bank’s role in the cheating.

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