Gurugram, Jul 3 (PTI) Police have arrested a man for allegedly providing a bank account to cyber fraudsters for an investment scam worth Rs 1.09 crore carried out last year, officials said here on Friday.
Police made the arrest on Wednesday and have been questioning him after a court sent him on two days of police remand, they said.
According to police, on September 8 last year, a man filed a complaint that cyber fraudsters cheated him of around Rs 1.09 crore on the pretext of getting him high returns through stock market investments.
Based on the complaint, a case was registered at the Cyber Crime Police Station South.
Acting on the investigation, a police team arrested Parag Joshi, a resident of Jaipur in Rajasthan, on Wednesday.
“During the interrogation,
police found that Rs 12 lakh of the defrauded amount had been transferred to a bank account that was opened by the accused in the name of a private company.
“The accused had allegedly provided this bank account to another person involved in the cyber fraud in exchange for Rs 1.20 lakh. We are questioning the accused,” said a spokesperson of Gurugram police. PTI COR SKY SKY SKY
