A 21-year-old man has been arrested for creating a fake identity card of a Pay and Accounts Officer of the central government to siphon off money from the bank accounts of various ministries through bogus bills, police said.
Noor Mohammad, a resident of Moregaon in Assam, was arrested earlier by Delhi police for a similar offence, in which over ₹3.8 crore was fraudulently withdrawn from the accounts of the Health Ministry, Anyesh Roy, DCP (cyber crime), said.
He was released on bail a few weeks ago and he hatched another conspiracy.
In the latest case, the Ministry of Labour and Employment complained to Delhi police on June 25 about an e-mail from “Lalit Dagar”, who claimed he was appointed as the new Pay & Accounts Officer of the ministry’s Directorate General of Employment in Chennai.
The accused requested the approval of his user-ID on the Public Financial Management System and also mentioned a mobile number and a landline number.
But because of the alert officials in the ministry, he was nabbed.
{{/usCountry}}But because of the alert officials in the ministry, he was nabbed.
{{/usCountry}}“The accused, identified as Noor Mohammad, a resident of Moregaon in Assam, along with his associates, had earlier managed to successfully create and get approved a fake ID of PAO officer in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and managed to fraudulently create bills and thus, transfer money to the tune of ₹3.86 crore to multiple bank accounts,” Roy said Tuesday.
Similar complaints have been received from other ministries including Coal, Civil Aviation and Law, in which Mohammad had attempted to get a fake and bogus PFMS IDs approved, the DCP said.
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