PUNE: In February this year, an unidentified caller posing as a police or CBI official allegedly sent 3,057 million yen to a prominent Ayurveda practitioner (67) in the city, threatening him with charges of “money laundering”. He forced them to remit 10,000 rupees. The victim runs an Ayurvedic hospital in Sadashiv Peth and is a resident of Kalvenagar. TOI contacted the man via phone and text message on Monday, but he did not respond. Inspector Nilkanth Jagtap of Warje police said, “The caller threatened the man not to divulge the contents of the call to his relatives and friends and made him send money to…”. Please shut up the incident. ” Incidentally, in April 2022, the same victim was defrauded of 50,000 rupees by cyber criminals in a bank account KYC fraud incident. Jagtap said, “The victim was at home when he received the call.The caller was a well-known senior police officer in the Mumbai Crime Branch and identified himself as speaking from Andheri police station.” The caller claimed that the victim’s phone and account were being used for money laundering purposes and that the CBI was investigating the case. “We have sent him an online form asking for details of the victim,” he added. Bank account, Aadhaar, PAN card. In fear he submitted everything. The suspects asked him to transfer money to his six different bank accounts in private banks and his two accounts in public sector banks. ”If he did not complete the KYC procedure, his bank account would be blocked. They sent him a link to a form, he filled it out, submitted it, and within minutes his money was siphoned off. ”
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