Mohan Nagar police in Durg have arrested 15 mule account holders who were operating mule accounts in Kotak Mahindra Bank. The accounts owned by the arrested individuals were being used for transfer of fraud money and based on the information received from Samanvyay Portal of Government of India, the police had earlier registered cheating case against the account holders. It is suspected that the account owners rented their accounts which were used for transaction of fraud and cyber crime money.

 

After launching investigations against the account holders of the bank, the police on Saturday finally arrested 15 of the account holders who are believed to have rented their accounts for illegal gains. Investigation against other bank account holders of the bank was underway. Meanwhile those arrested by the Mohan Nagar police on Saturday included Piyush Dadsena (19), a resident of Aditya Nagar; Sahil Khan (23), Rishabh South City, Potiya; Khushi Jha (21), VAMBE Awas Vaishali Nagar; Mohammad Faran (22), Ayappa Nagar; Abhijeet Kumar (25), Sector-5; Aditya Rajak (21), Risali; Ashish Chandrakar (30), Meenakshi Nagar; Nikhi Sahu (19), Kurud; Ritesh Masih (19), Vishwa Bank Colony; Mohammad Sohail (24), Bhilai; Nikita Chouhan (23), Supela; Shubha Sengar (38), HUDCO; Shivam Pandey (27), 32 Acre Housing Board; Ritesh Dewangan (21), Kohka and Randheer Jha (52), a resident of Vaishali Nagar.