Mumbai: Two persons, including a third-year
MBBS student, have been arrested for allegedly hacking the
accounts of persons dealing in shares and withdrawing lakhs of
rupees, police said on Sunday.
Accused Ashish Kumar Dubey (26), the MBBS student, was
recently arrested from Uttar Pradesh and is alleged to have
siphoned off Rs 7.76 lakh in an online share trading fraud.
Earlier, his Mumbai based associate Tejas Ahuja (22), an
independent adviser dealing in shares, was arrested in the
last week of August here. He led the police to Dubey in UP.
Dubey, who started hacking two years back, ran out of
luck when Prakash Ganglani, who runs Angel Broking Ltd in
suburban Andheri, found misappropriation in the accounts of at
least six of its customers and lodged a complaint with the
police.
Investigations led to Ahuja, who used to trade from cyber
cafes. Police alleged he first hacked into the account of
Ali Hussain, a share trader of Angel Broking.
"After hacking into the account, he sold 10,800 shares
of Ali for five paise to himself. Subsequently he sold the
same units of shares to Ali for Rs 57 each," said senior
inspector Pradeep Suryavanshi, MIDC police station.
Ahuja learnt it from Dubey who would hack the password
of the server of broking firm and gain access to customers'
accounts, he alleged.
Probe revealed that Dubey had committed a similar fraud
this year at Ganganagar in Rajasthan. He is wanted for
swindling over Rs 20 lakh there, said Suryavanshi adding that
two aides of the accused are still at large.
Bureau Report
First Published: Sunday, September 13, 2009, 19:42