Bank Account Trace

Delhi police trace bank a/cs from where cash for votes came

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police, which will question former SP general secretary Amar Singh in connection with the cash-for-vote scam on Friday, has found the bank accounts from where money was withdrawn to bribe three BJP MPs to help the UPA government win the July 2008 trust vote.Police have asked Amar Singh to appear before them on Friday morning, although he has not yet acknowledged the notice. Police have prepared a 12-point questionaire for Singh on the basis of the interrogation of Suhail Hindustani.Sources in Delhi Police told TOI that they have, on the basis of the numbers of currency notes used as bribe money for the BJP MPs, identified 10 branches of different banks from where the money came. Police are also checking the identity of the account holders concerned.The communication to Amar Singh coincided with the flutter that police caused when it told the trial court that nobody from either Congress or SP approached Suhail Hindustani, the alleged liaison between the BJP MPs and those whose votes were allegedly sought to be purchased. Police's version was contested by Hindustani's counsel who opposed what he termed the clean chit to Congress and SP.Hindustani claims that he was a whistleblower who played along with Congress and SP when they tried to buy votes of opposition parties to help the Manmohan Singh government survive the 2008 trust vote caused by Left withdrawing its support in protest against the Indo-US nuclear deal. After questioning Suhail Hindustani, police have come across several new names who reportedly contacted him from July 20 to July 22, 2008, and those whom he called. Sources said many of them are leaders of different political parties. Hindustani has also blamed Amar Singh for calling him to buy BJP MPs. "Amar Singh has been called tomorrow for questioning under Section 160 CrPC and he will be confronted with Suhail Hindustani and Sanjeev Saxena," said a senior police officer. However, Amar Singh has not replied to the Crime Branch notice yet.About the money trail, officials said they had verified the bank accounts from where money was taken out and the people who provided money would be questioned soon. Sources claimed that one of the accounts belonged to a real estate firm. The money, Rs 1 crore, was given to three BJP MPs — Ashok Argal, Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahavir Bhagora — around 3pm on July 22, 2008 and was shown around 4pm in Parliament, as also mentioned by the parliamentary committee in its report. the parliamentary committee had made Sudheendra Kulkarni, Suhail Hindustani and Sanjeev Saxena liable for the well hatched conspiracy and Hindustani was called the mastermind. During its investigations, the parliamentary panel had also cited that if required, accused people should undergo brain mapping and narcoanalysis test but later a judgment from Supreme Court ruled out narcoanalysis tests in the country.On the role of SP, sources said Hindustani also referred to a senior SP leader, Uday Pratap Singh, as 'Guruji' in his conversation whom they might question. Hindustani has also named Reoti Raman Singh in his statement.

City phishing cases traced to Mumbai | Cyber Crimes Unit

BANGALORE: The cyber crime police, after a two-year investigation, have proved that a Mumbai mafia is phishing the IT city. They have arrested three persons in connection with three separate incidents.

They have also proved that the ‘phishing mafia’ is not directly using their e-accounts but is using accounts of others on commission basis.

A CID official of the SP’s rank said that this is a dangerous trend because many such ‘phishing cases’ reported in Bangalore are being traced to Mumbai. “We suspect there could be a mafia which runs anti-social activities after availing money by doing these types of hi tech-robbery,” he added.

The Cyber Crime Police Station (CCPS) registered around 100 such phishing cases in 2009, but for them it is very difficult to trace the accused as they are using benami bank accounts, sources said. Now the CCPS has succeeded in arresting three persons, all from Mumbai in connection with some cases. The police also said that the accused are graduates with the knowledge of computer. The investigations are still on.

Case 1 The cyber police arrested one Abdul Khan Khair (28) from Halav Pool Kurla West Mumbai on Wednesday.

Exactly two years ago, (July 25, 2009) he did phishing on behalf of one Feroze of Rs 1 lakh. He transferred Rs 1 Lakh (Rs 50,000 twice) from the ICICI account of one IT professional Abhishek Malviya, a native of Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh. Malviya, after checking with the ICICI bank, got to know that the money was transferred to the accounts of Atul Javed Khan and Manojkumar Solanki.

Police suspect that the two names are benami and the accused who transferred the money from Malviya’s account through internet banking is Abdul Khan Khair.

Khan told the interrogators that he did this internet fraud as suggested by one Feroze for availing commission amount from the latter, police detailed.

Case 2 The CCPS sleuths arrested one Syed Mohemmed Kafil (27) of Naupada, Bandra West of Maharastra. He was arrested in a case on July 17 which was registered on August 31 of 2009 by an IT professional Babuprasad Chakravarty, an employee with a BPO run by Infosys company. An amount of Rs 30,000 from his ICICI savings bank account was transferred to another account.

When he checked with the bank, they told the money was transferred to an account at Mumbai.

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