Charge sheet filed in server hacking case of Cosmos Bank

Charge sheet filed in server hacking case of Cosmos Bank

Pune: The special investigation team (SIT) of the city police has filed a 1,750 page charge sheet against the nine arrested accused in the Cosmos Bank’s server hacking and siphoning off Rs 94.45 crore case. The police are yet to nab the masterminds. 

The arrested accused had withdrawn cash from various ATMs. 

According to the cyber cell, the hackers used malware to hack the bank’s system and clone ATM card details of customers. On August 11, the hackers conducted over 12,000 transactions and transferred Rs 78 crore out of India. In the second instance, total 2,849 transactions were conducted in which Rs 2.5 crore was transferred within India. On August 13, hackers again transferred Rs 13.92 crore to a Hong Kong-based bank by using fraudulent swift transactions.
 
The police said that while cloning the Visa and Rupay debit cards of bank account holders and using a ‘parallel’ system to the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI), the hackers self-approved the transactions and withdrew over Rs 94 crore on two-three occasions. It was Visa and Rupay who appraised the bank about these fraudulent transactions to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Realising it was a cyber attack, bank officials then registered an FIR with the Chatuhshrungi police station.

The arrested accused persons were told in advance about the date and time when they had to withdraw the money. Between 3 pm to 10 pm on August 11, the accused persons had withdrawn Rs 89.57 lakh using 101 cards from ATMs in Kolhapur. In Ajmer, Rajasthan, two accused withdrew Rs 10.7 lakh using 16 cloned ATM cards. The police have recovered Rs six lakh from the accused persons. 

Charge sheet against following accused
The police have filed a charge sheet against Fahim Mehfuj Sheikh (27) of Bhiwandi, Fahim Azim Khan (30), Sheikh Mohammed Abdul Jabbar (28), both residents of Aurangabad, Mahesh Sahebrao Rathod (22) of Nanded, Naresh Laxminarayan Maharana (34) of Palghar, Mohammad Saeed Iqbal Hussain Jafari alias Ali (30) of Bhiwandi, Yestes Agustin Waz alias Anthony (41) of Mumbai, Rafiq Jalil Ansari (38) and Abdulla Afsarali Shaikh (28) of Thane.

Abroad money not recovered
Apart from India, an amount of Rs 78 crore was withdrawn from ATMs in 28 countries using over 5,000 ATM cards. The Pune police has written to them through Interpol but there has been no headway in the recovery of the amount. 

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