Cybercrooks drain Rs 56 lakh from TMC MP's bank account

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee fell unfortunate to cyber fraud, with astir Rs 56 lakh siphoned disconnected from his slope relationship utilizing different 'dormant' relationship linked to him. The slope has filed a ailment with Kolkata Police's cybercrime unit, reports Dwaipayan Ghosh.

Between 2001 and 2006, erstwhile Banerjee was the MLA from Asansol South, an relationship was opened successful his name, on with different legislators, astatine a nationalist assemblage bank's legislative assembly sub-branch, which is nether the precocious tribunal branch.

All his allowances arsenic an MLA were deposited into this account. Banerjee, who is present an MP from Serampore, stated that determination were nary transactions successful this aged relationship for a agelong time, rendering it a 'dormant' account.

The fraudsters exploited this relationship for their scheme. Banerjee said the manager of the HC subdivision called him up connected Thursday to pass him astir the fraud. Police fishy that utilizing the MP's photograph and mobile number, Rs 56 lakh was transferred from his Kalighat subdivision relationship to the 'dormant' account, and subsequently, the full magnitude was withdrawn. "The fraudster forged a PAN and Aadhaar paper by superimposing a antithetic representation connected the seemingly genuine documents. Through impersonation, they updated the customer's KYC accusation and subsequently changed the registered mobile fig connected October 28 and reset the password," the bank's elder manager, Smita Kundu, said.