<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">Police in Maharashtra's Thane city have arrested three persons for their alleged role in a financial crime that involved breaching the system of a payment gateway service provider and siphoning off more than 16,180 crore rupees.  </span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">An official informed today that one Amol Andale alias Aman, who is named in the FIR registered at Naupada police station on October 6, was held by the Cyber Cell of Thane police. He informed that Andale allegedly arranged KYC details for opening of accounts that were used to carry out the crime.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">On Thursday, two persons identified as 26-year-old Anup Dubey of Bhayander, and 42-year-old Mumbai resident Sanjay Namdeo Gaikwad, a partner in a firm, were arrested.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">According to the police, the fraud had been taking place for a long time, but it came to light after a complaint was lodged with the Srinagar police station about the hacking of the payment gateway system of the company in April 2023 and 25 crore rupees being siphoned off.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">During the probe, the cyber cell team came across suspicious transactions of more than 16,180 crore rupees.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Naupada police in the city on October 6 registered a case against five persons under sections 420 (cheating), 409 (criminal breach of trust), 467, 468 (forgery), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (common intention) and provisions of the Information Technology Act.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">As per the FIR, one of the accused, named Jitendra Pandey, earlier worked for 8 to 10 years with banks as a relationship and sales manager.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The police suspect there may be many players in this mega racket, which has been going on for long, and may have pan-India ramifications affecting several companies and individuals. As many as five partnership firms were set up by the accused, and transactions to the tune of 16,180 crore rupees were revealed after the inspection of 260 bank statements.</span></p>