Card fraud: Man held may be part of ring
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Kolkata: The city police detective department arrested a youth on Tuesday from near a Citibank branch at Kanak Building on J L Nehru Road on charges of committing credit card fraud. Sleuths suspect he is part of a bigger racket operating in the city for more than a year. They also recovered many incriminating documents like a comprehensive database on bank clients and a number of credit cards belonging to other persons from him. Subhrodeb Saha Chowdhury (25) of Chandernagore, who was remanded in police custody till May 16, is suspected to have duped a large number of credit card holders by posing as a private bank employee. “He is smart, suave and speaks fluent English. Smartly attired, Chowdhury seldom aroused suspicion. Armed with the detailed database on bank clients, he sounded convincing, too,” said a detective department officer. Chowdhury had passed the secondary examination, but failed to cross the higher secondary hurdle. The seizure of the database has led the police to suspect that a racket has taken deep roots and has even penetrated banks. “It is impossible for anyone to access classified information on clients without help from bank insiders or the banks’ outsourcing agencies.
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Kolkata: The city police detective department arrested a youth on Tuesday from near a Citibank branch at Kanak Building on J L Nehru Road on charges of committing credit card fraud. Sleuths suspect he is part of a bigger racket operating in the city for more than a year. They also recovered many incriminating documents like a comprehensive database on bank clients and a number of credit cards belonging to other persons from him. Subhrodeb Saha Chowdhury (25) of Chandernagore, who was remanded in police custody till May 16, is suspected to have duped a large number of credit card holders by posing as a private bank employee. “He is smart, suave and speaks fluent English. Smartly attired, Chowdhury seldom aroused suspicion. Armed with the detailed database on bank clients, he sounded convincing, too,” said a detective department officer. Chowdhury had passed the secondary examination, but failed to cross the higher secondary hurdle. The seizure of the database has led the police to suspect that a racket has taken deep roots and has even penetrated banks. “It is impossible for anyone to access classified information on clients without help from bank insiders or the banks’ outsourcing agencies.
So, we will interrogate Chowdhury to find out more about the racket and how it operates,” said deputy commissioner (detective department) Jawed Shamim. Among the many cards recovered from Chowdhury, two belonged to Tollygunge resident Shantanu Prasad Mukherjee. Chowdhury had stolen Mukherjee’s cards by promising to replace those with ones that had a higher credit limit. Earlier, he had managed to convince Mukherjee that he was an employee with a private bank. Within days of stealing Mukherjee’s cards, he withdrew Rs 41,000 in cash. Later, he again withdrew Rs 1.65 lakh from the two accounts. Shamim said the racket often used to obtain new credit cards with the help of the ones stolen. “The addresses of the stolen cards were changed to some fictitious ones. After obtaining new cards, they start robbing the accounts. We have been after this racket for a very long time. Finally, we have tasted some success,” he said.
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