Pune: The Dighi police on Thursday arrested two farmers from Indapur for allowing cybercrooks to dupe a 38-year-old software engineer of Rs 58.7 lakh by using their bank accounts.
The techie lost the sum in an online cryptocurrency fraud between July 15 and Aug 12 using.
Senior inspector Bapu Dhere of the Dighi police said the complainant, who works with a prominent software company in Kharadi, has been trading shares.”Last month, he noticed an advertisement about investments in stocks and cryptocurrency. When he clicked on the link, he was automatically added to a group of investors on a mobile messenger app,” Dhere said.
The officer said the crooks offered him a good profit on his investment in cryptocurrency. They took Rs 58.70 lakh from him to different bank accounts between July 15 and August 12. “When the complainant did not get his profit amount, he started pursuing them. He became suspicious when the suspects stopped responding to his calls, following which he approached the police and filed a complaint,” he said.
Dhere said, the police checked transactions and found that two bank accounts, where the victim transferred the money, were located in Indapur. “We also found that one of the two farmers even purchased a mobile SIM card and gave it to the suspects.”
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