GUWAHATI, Nov 11: The cyber cell of the Assam Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested a man from Jalukbari on suspicion of involvement in cyber fraud and opening fake bank accounts without customers' knowledge or consent.
The accused, identified as Naveen Hussain, allegedly posed as an HDFC Bank employee and collected people's personal details to open accounts in their names.
Hussain ran an HDFC Bank Customer Service Point (CSP) centre in Jalukbari, investigators said. They suspected that multiple fake accounts had been opened through the centre.
Preliminary investigation indicated that the accounts were later used for transactions linked to cyber fraud and other illegal activities.
Investigators said several lakh rupees had been deposited in bank accounts linked to the accused. Around Rs 5 lakh was transferred to one such account in a recent case.
The CID froze several bank accounts linked to Hussain as part of the investigation. Multiple cases of financial fraud have been registered against him at different police stations.
The cyber cell suspected the involvement of a larger fraud network and continued its investigation to identify other members and trace the complete money trail.
