UP: 120 crore fraud in university… Fraudster Anurag Srivastava set a trap by posing as a bank manager
In the case of embezzling Rs 120 crore from AKTU in Lucknow, fraud Anurag Srivastava has been sent to jail. A total of 8 arrests have been made in the case. Meanwhile, fraud Anurag told the police the whole story, which is very shocking. Anurag was arrested by the cyber crime team from Ayodhya.
The accused is in police custody.
In the case of embezzling Rs 120 crore from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU) in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, the police of Cyber Crime Police Station arrested Anurag Srivastava, a big fraudster, from Ayodhya. Then after presenting him in the court, he was sent to jail. But many shocking revelations have been made during interrogation. On the basis of these, the police is conducting further investigation. So far eight accused have been sent to jail in the fraud. The police will also take Anurag on custody remand.
Cyber Crime Police Station Inspector Brijesh Kumar Yadav said- After committing the fraud, Anurag had switched off his mobile and was hiding somewhere. With the help of surveillance, he was traced and arrested from Kandhari Bazar area of Ayodhya.
Big FDs are done by AKTU. The FD process was to be done in the month of June. In which Anurag Srivastava participated in the FD process of the university by becoming the manager of Union Bank. Anurag himself, by becoming the finance officer of the university, prepared the FD related documents from the bank and opened a fake account in the name of AKTU. On June 5, the amount of FD of Rs 120 crore came into the bank account. From there, by becoming the finance officer, Anurag got this amount transferred to the fake account of AKTU.
Out of this, Rs 100 crore was transferred to Shri Shraddha Trust of Gujarat. On June 18, the team of Cyber Crime Police Station arrested Girish Chandra, Shailesh Raghuvanshi, Joshi Devendra Prasad, KK Tripathi, Dastagir Alam, Uday Patel and Rajesh Babu in this case. Then Anurag's name came up. He was being searched since then. Now he has been arrested.
Opened an account by making fake documents
Anurag Srivastava is originally from Haria in Basti. During interrogation, the accused told that with the help of the accused who have been sent to jail, he had opened a fake account by preparing fake documents. After that, he had got a visiting card made in the name of bank manager Anuj Kumar Saxena. With the help of that card, he met the university officials. He carried out the fraud by trapping the university officials and bank employees.
Got 15 lakh rupees
Police investigation revealed that Shivansh had introduced Anurag to jailed film producer Rajesh Babu. Then the conspiracy was executed. Anurag got a total of 15 lakh rupees from the fraud. He stayed in Uttarakhand for a few days. Then he went to Delhi and finally came to live in Ayodhya. The inspector said that he was in touch with his family through WhatsApp calls. He was caught by tracing the IP address.