Navi Mumbai crime: Cash management firm employee booked for misappropriating funds worth Rs 3 lakh

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Navi Mumbai crime: The Navi Mumbai police in Maharashtra have registered an FIR against a 30-year-old employee of a cash management company for allegedly misappropriating funds worth more than Rs 3 lakh, an official said on Tuesday, reported the PTI.

According to the PTI, the suspect was given the task of filling cash in bank ATMs, keeping its record and solving technical problems in the cash vending machines, the official from Kharghar police station said.

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Between September 22 and October 4 last year, the accused allegedly tampered with a cassette of an ATM of a bank branch in Kharghar area and misappropriated funds to the tune of Rs 3,05,700, he said, as per the PTI.

During the inspection and reconciliation of funds, the fraud came to light and a bank employee filed a police complaint.

Based on the complaint, the police on Monday registered a case against the accused under Indian Penal Code section 408 (criminal breach of trust by clerk or servant), the official said.

Meanwhile, in an another case, the Navi Mumbai police arrested a 35-year-old chartered accountant from Pune for allegedly cheating people of lakhs through "task" fraud, an official said on Tuesday, reported the PTI.

The police apprehended Akash Umesh Pandey, a chartered accountant with a private firm, from Lohegaon in Pune on November 4 in a case registered against him under section 420 (cheating) and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act, senior inspector Gajanan Kadam of the cyber police station said.

The police had received a complaint from a Navi Mumbai resident who allegedly lost Rs 17 lakh after performing various tasks online as instructed by the accused between August 9 and 14, he said, as per the PTI.

The police traced the bank account in which the money was deposited and the phone number connected to the transactions. The police froze the bank accounts and zeroed in on the accused in Pune, the official said, according to the PTI.

Pandey, along with his associates in Delhi, was involved in four similar offences in Maharashtra and had 21 cyber cases in other states, he said.

The cyber police have frozen Rs 5.9 lakh deposited in different bank accounts operated by the arrested accused, the official said

(with PTI inputs)