Deputy Commissioner of Police (Second Zone) Samartha Patil said that these eight bank accounts belonged to eight persons.. Seven of them were arrested from different states, while the search is on for the main accused.
Adar Poonawala. (file photo)
Maharashtra Police have arrested 7 people in the case of cheating in the name of Adar Poonawala, Chief Executive Officer of Serum Institute of India in Pune. 1.1 crore was allegedly defrauded in various bank accounts for allegedly using Adar Poonawalla’s picture and a director of a vaccine manufacturing company. The police have arrested seven accused in the case.
According to the FIR lodged at Bandgarden police station in the second week of September, the accused had used Poonawalla’s picture in a WhatsApp account, through which a message was sent to Satish Deshpande, a director of the company, to transfer funds, a police official said. He told that Deshpande thought that this message had come from Poonawalla.
Fraud of 1 crore in the name of Adar Poonawalla
He transferred Rs 1.1 crore from the company’s funds to eight bank accounts given in the WhatsApp conversation. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Second Zone) Samartha Patil said that these eight bank accounts belonged to eight persons.. Seven of them were arrested from different states, while the search is on for the main accused. Police have seized 40 such accounts in which money was transferred from these eight accounts. He said that till now Rs 13 lakh has been seized from these accounts. The accused are B.Tech and science graduates from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh. One of the accused works in a commercial bank.
Police arrested 7 out of 8 accused
Serum Institute, a Pune-based company that provided the Corona vaccine, became a victim of cyber fraud. Messages were sent on WhatsApp to a senior official of the company in the name of Adar Poonawala, CEO of Serum Institute. He was asked to transfer one crore rupees to different account numbers. The finance officer felt that it was the boss’s order, so he transferred the money to all the account numbers. Thinking that it was the boss’s order, he transferred the money. When he spoke to Adar on the phone, he realized the fraud.
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