Thane: A bunch of individuals allegedly hacked right into a cost gateway service supplier firm’s account and siphoned off funds value over Rs 16,180 crore from totally different financial institution accounts over a time period, the Thane police stated.

The fraud was going down since lengthy and got here to gentle following a criticism lodged with Srinagar police station in Maharashtra’s Thane metropolis of hacking of the cost gateway account of the corporate right here in April 2023 and Rs 25 crore being siphoned off, an official from Naupada police station stated.

When the police performed a probe into it, a mega fraud value over Rs 16,180 crore got here to gentle, the official stated quoting the FIR.

Following a criticism by a Thane crime department official, the Naupada police right here on Friday registered the FIR towards Sanjay Singh, Amol Andale @ Aman, Kedar @ Sameer Dighe, Jitendra Pandey and one other unidentified individual beneath Indian Penal Code sections 420 (dishonest), 409 (prison breach of belief), 467, 468 (forgery), 120B (prison conspiracy) and 34 (widespread intention) and provisions of the Information Technology Act.

No arrest has been made thus far, the police stated.

As per the FIR, accused Jitendra Pandey earlier labored for 8 to 10 years with banks as relationship and gross sales supervisor.

The police suspect there could also be many gamers on this mega racket, which has been happening since lengthy, and will have pan India ramifications affecting a number of firms and people, the official stated.

The crime is suspected to be unfold over 1000’s of financial institution accounts and the cash transferred into a number of different accounts, as per the FIR.

The police probe workforce has recovered a number of solid paperwork from the accused, it stated.

An investigation was underway into the case, the police added. PTI