An unidentified person duped a private bank in north-east Mumbai and fraudulently got Rs 1.43 lakh from a Mulund-based private college transferred to his bank account, the police said.
According to the police, the fraudster allegedly changed the details entered in an NEFT money transfer application form on October 28 when the assistant manager of the bank’s Mulund West branch went to the washroom.
The bank, in its internal inquiry, found that more such fraudulent transactions amounting to Rs 4.79 lakh have been done from the branch, and transferred to the same beneficiary bank account, the police said.
The fraudulent transaction, however, came to light only two weeks later when a staff member from the college approached the bank to enquire about a NEFT transfer on November 11. When the bank staff retrieved the NEFT transfer application form, the school staffer told them it didn’t belong to his school.
The bank conducted an internal inquiry and on analysing the CCTV analysis spotted the unknown person sneaking into the vacant room of the bank officer. The footage showed the stranger taking the NEFT form from the table, going out and placing it back on the table after some time with modified details, states the FIR, the police said.
Unaware of this, the assistant manager cleared the form and processed the NEFT request, the Mulund police said. The officer then filed a cheating complaint with the police on Friday.
“On October 28, when there was a shortage of staff, the complainant was also assisting clerical staff by supervising the processing of RTGS and NEFT money transfer applications and finally sending the money,” the police said in the First Information Report (FIR).
“We have registered the case and are further investigating the matter. no arrest has been made yet,” said inspector in-charge of Mulund police station.
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