Bank workers work closely in hand with cybercriminals, according to Gurugram police

Cybercrime cases are rising as more and more employees of private banks are discovered to have assisted cybercriminals. The increasing discovery of the connection between hackers and bank workers is fueling the surge in these illicit operations.

In a recent incident, another bank employee was apprehended by the Gurugram Cyber Police for aiding cybercriminals by giving them bank accounts. With this arrest, the number of bank workers apprehended by the police for their participation in cyberfraud cases in the previous three months has risen to ten.

According to a top cyber police officer, many bank personnel give in to the temptation of financial gain and commit fraud. They use falsified papers and improper verification to create bank accounts in the names of people or businesses. The bank personnel “charge from Rs 10,000 to Rs 50,000” for their services in establishing these fictitious accounts. Sadly, these workers are unaware that the false accounts they make are eventually used by hackers to trick innocent people using a variety of cybercrime techniques.

Himanshu Gangwar (29), a Yes Bank employee and native of Gopalpur village in the Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh, was taken into custody by the cyber police on Tuesday. He has worked at numerous other institutions before this. In December 2013, he was taken into custody in relation to a cybercrime case in which a man was tricked out of Rs 6 lakh by means of work-from-home possibilities that were task-based.

“It was revealed during questioning that the accused had given a sum of Rs 3 lakh, which was part of the fraudulent money, to someone called Kushal Marmat when he worked at the ICICI bank’s Sushant Lok branch in Gurugram. The accused acknowledged receiving Rs 10,000 for creating an account in the name of a phony firm without doing the necessary due diligence. Furthermore, the accused admitted to creating a second bank account at AU Small Finance Bank at Marmat’s request—again, without doing the necessary due diligence. The accused is being questioned right now, according to DCP Cyber Siddharth Jain.

Ten workers from different banks have already been detained this year, according to DCP Jain, for their connections to hackers.