Noida police arrest five from Mumbai in internet hacking case

NOIDA police claimed to have cracked the case involving an internet hacker gang siphoning off Rs 1.66 crore from the account of an international electronic automotive goods supplier firm.

NOIDA police claimed to have cracked the case involving an internet hacker gang siphoning off Rs 1.66 crore from the account of an international electronic automotive goods supplier firm.

The people accused of being involved in the alleged internet hacking racket are all graduates 8212; one of them, who had transferred the withdrawn money in his account is a civil engineer and an MBA.

The five arrested by the police are Mitul Trivedi, resident of Pune, Savio

Derochlobo, resident of Goa, Bharatbhai Patel, Uday Kapadia and Yogi Anjani Bhandari, all residents of Mumbai.

Police said the money transfer chain was broken after interrogating persons in Goa and Mumbai. 8220;There are dozens of people who have received the money transferred from the account of P K Aggarwal. We have yet to trace the mastermind. The team sent to Mumbai will hopefully be able to crack the case soon,8221; said R K Chaturvedi, SSP, Gautam Budh Nagar.

On October 11, P K Aggarwal had lodged a complaint saying Rs 1.66 crore had been siphoned off his bank account. The first transaction took place on September 29, in which Rs 21.5 lakh was transferred to a Mumbai branch of the Punjab National Bank. The second transaction took place on October 1, in which Rs 81 lakh was siphoned off.

The Noida police have tracked down a long chain of money transfer to various local bank accounts in Goa, Mumbai and Mysore after they were alerted of a certain transaction to a bank account in Goa.

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8220;The police were alerted of the fact that on October 2, Rs 80 lakh was transferred from the account of one Savio Derochlobo, resident of Panjim, Goa, who owns a firm called Panjim Asiatic State Development, to an ICICI Mumbai branch account. The money was then distributed among four, who have also been arrested. Savio had incurred a loan of Rs 5 crore and was in dire need of money,8221; said Chaturvedi.

He also added that Rs 12.47 lakh have been recovered, apart from Rs 20 lakh that has been recovered from the bank account of N Venkatesh of Goa, after the police was informed of the money transferred in his account. 8220;A total of Rs 52 lakh has been recovered and has been transferred back to the account of P K Aggarwal,8221; said Chaturvedi.

According to circle officer Rajiv K Mishra, a team of the Noida police is investigating the accounts in Mumbai. 8220;We will trace the complete chain and the mastermind involved in the crime soon,8221; said Mishra.