Six Arrested For Credit Card Fraud In Odisha Capital; Know Their Modus Operandi

Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Commissionerate Police has arrested six persons in connection with a credit card fraud amounting to Rs 8 crore.

The arrested have been identified as Prasanjit Dash alias Rinku (28), Pradeep Kumar Samantara alias Shiba (27), Mukesh Mantri alias Sajan, Biju Tripathy (58), Abdul Rahman alias Abdul and Rajesh Das.

Addressing a presser, Bhubaneswar DCP Prateek Singh on Saturday said that the six were arrested on the basis of a complaint lodged by Rakesh Kumar, who had alleged that a credit card was issued in his name without his knowledge and he was denied loan over poor CIBIL score because of the transactions made using it. “The outstanding dues of the credit card was Rs 1,40,000. The Cyber police during investigation identified Biju Tripathy of Pipili area as the person using the credit card. During the raid on his house, 450 credit and debit cards, Rs 7 lakh cash, 50 cheque books, 78 passbooks, 3 sacks of money receipt, six swipe machines and as many mobile phones were seized,” he said. 

The DCP said that the entire scam was unravelled during further investigation. “Prasanjit Dash used to collect personal credentials of different persons to apply for credit cards and also fraudulently received those cards and used it. Simultaneously Pradeep Kumar Samantara, who was the employee of a bank, used to issue those cards in the name of Rakesh Kumar with forged documents. Mukesh Mantri introduced Prasanjit Dash with Biju Tripathy, who used to collect cash by using the credit card at POS counters like hospitals and OMFED booths in connivance with billing agents,” he said.

Abdul Rahman and Rajesh Dash are hospital employees who worked as billing agents.

Singh further said Biju Tripathy used pay some commission to the billing agents and invest the remaining cash to earn profits. “So far, we have calculated Rs 2 crore of the money receipt seized. The investigation is in preliminary stage and efforts are to ascertain involvement of others in the scam,” he added.