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DRDO Espionage Case: Money Transferred To Accused Account Traced To Dubai-Based Agency

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Bhubaneswar: The Crime Branch investigation into DRDO espionage case has established that one of the arrested person has received money from a money transfer company in Dubai.

According to sources, of Rs 38,000 deposited in the bank account of one of the arrested persons in the case, Basant Behera, Rs 24,000 has been found to have been transferred through Lulu International Agency, a money transfer company in Dubai.

The amount has been deposited in the Behera’s account of the bank at Chandipur in Balasore district. Though the origin of the rest amount of Rs 14,000 has not been traced, investigation is going on to dig up the details, the sources said.

Earlier, Crime Branch SP Prashant Kumar Bisoyi had said Behera had received money in his bank account from a foreign account in two instalments. In one instalment, Rs 24,000 was deposited and in the second, Rs 14,000.

It may be noted that Balasore police had arrested five contractual employees of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) at the Integrated Research Range, Chandipur in connection with the case on September 14.

The Crime Branch, which was handed over the case, has confirmed that the arrested persons were involved in leaking secret information about the missile test at ITR. They were providing information about dates of missile tests from ITR and whether those were successful or not to the foreign agent.

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