Pune June 29 Video tape shows fraudster wore helmet while withdrawing money
The ATM card fraudsters who have been on the prowl for some time now have scalped yet another citizen. This time, the victim is Umesh Maini of Koregaon Park. An account holder of IDBI Bank, Maini is currently working in Finland.
A fraudster got an ATM card by submitting a fake application at IDBI Bank in the name of Maini and used it for withdrawing Rs 11.6 lakh from his account over the last two months. While the money was withdrawn from various ATM centres equipped with CCTVs, the police and bank authorities checked the video recordings but could not identify him “because he was wearing a helmet during all the transactions”.
The police said that about two months ago, a man submitted a letter in the name of Umesh Maini to IDBI Bank for a cheque book and ATM card. He had made fake signatures of Maini on the letter. The bank officials thought that signatures were original and issued the ATM card and cheque book to him.
For two months, the man withdrew money from Maini’s account, using the ATM card. The fraud, however, came to light a couple of days ago when Maini’s father-in-law, also a resident of Koregaon Park, checked his account details.
The father-in-law rushed to the Fergusson College Road branch of IDBI Bank and told the bank authorities that someone had been withdrawing money from Maini’s account without consent. An amount of Rs 11.6 lakh was withdrawn from the account between April 24 and June 23 from various ATM centres in the city. IDBI branch manager Dhanajay Prabhakar Lele has lodged a complaint with the Shivajinagar police station.
Police Inspector S P Patil, the investigating officer, said that signature by the fraudster on the application for the ATM looks like original. “There are CCTVs installed in most of the ATM centres of IDBI Bank. We have checked the video records at the ATM centres at the time when money was withdrawn from Maini’s account. The criminal could not be identified because he was wearing a helmet during all the transactions,” said Patil.
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