Fraud busted as painter blocks a/c after 1.7cr credited to it
Kolkata: A Jamtara-style
racket, in which unsuspecting residents' bank accounts were being used to launder crores of ill-gotten money, was busted at Nimta in north Dum Dum on Wednesday.
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Six people, including a dismissed bank employee, were arrested.
Police said two of the accused had barged into a house painter's home in Nimta and threatened him to reactivate his bank account, which the man had blocked on noticing "suspicious" transactions of Rs 1.7 crore. Following complaints of the harassment, Nimta PS cops arrived and detained the two men. "Their interrogation blew the lid on a fraud involving bank accounts belonging to residents of Nimta-Birati."
said a Barrackpore Commissionerate officer.
The two's arrest led cops to four others. The accused are Sourav Kar, Prasun Das, Shubhankar Sarkar, Raja Lohar, Priyabrata Ghosh alias Akash, and Suranjan Sarkar, Akash being the ex-bank staffer. Police suspect the gang operated under Shantanu Majumdar, currently in jail.
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