In what could have a far-reaching impact on the BPO industry, police said the investigations into the Rs 1.5-crore cyber crime involving former employees of MphasiS have revealed that an additional $75,000 was also withdrawn from the US citizens’ Citibank accounts. Police have also recovered a fake ration card from the prime accused, Ivan Samuel Thomas. ACP (Crime Branch) Sanjay Jadhav told the court Thomas’s e-mail password had been changed after his arrest on April 6, leading them to suspect that others were involved too. The police said that one of the accused, Stephen Daniel, was a Defence Research and Development Organisation employee and they were probing his possible involvement in other cases. After Daniel’s arrest, the police had said he was working with the BPO firm. Public prosecutor D.T. Sonar told the court that the police had been able to recover Rs 13 lakh from the accused. Meanwhile, the Judicial Magistrate extended the police custody of Ivan Thomas, Ginny Thomas George, Nitin Madhav Valkar, Vijay More, Saundraj Ramanujam and Satish Madhukar Parab till April 19.
