65 agents cheat Easy Pay firm of Rs 3.5 crore; 1 held in West Bengal

A statement issued by the police stated that Easy Pay provides an online payment facility to citizens across the country. It has appointed several agents for carrying out the company’s work.

The police identified the accused as Ankitkumar Ashok Pande, 20, a native of Bihar. (File/Representational)

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The cyber police station under Pune city police has arrested an agent of Easy Pay Private Limited Company from West Bengal in connection with a scam of Rs 3.5 crore.

The police identified the accused as Ankitkumar Ashok Pande, 20, a native of Bihar. A statement issued by the police stated that Easy Pay provides an online payment facility to citizens across the country. It has appointed several agents for carrying out the company’s work.

As per the offence lodged with the cyber police station, 65 agents of the company misused its technical facilities and illegally transferred money from the company’s “virtual payment address (VPA) account” to 44 other bank accounts, leading to a fraud of 3.52 crore.

Probe revealed that one of the accused in the case, Ankitkumar Pande, was in Delhi. When the police team went to Delhi, it was learnt that he had shifted to West Bengal. Officers then laid a trap and nabbed him from a village in Bardhman district of West Bengal and brought him to Pune. He was arrested in the cheating case under sections 419, 420, 34 of the Indian Penal Code and sections of the Information Technology Act.

He was produced before a court in Pune on Saturday which remanded him in police custody till July 19.

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