Hacking of Karnataka govt bank account: ED attaches Rs 1.44 crore
Private company and NGO allegedly misused siphoned-off funds of Rs 11.55 crore
BENGALURU:
The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached an amount of Rs 1.44 crore lying in 14 bank accounts under PMLA, 2002 in a cyber crime case against Nimmi Enterprises and others.
The ED initiated a money-laundering investigation on the basis of an FIR filed by the Cyber Crime police station, CID, Bengaluru, based on a complaint regarding hacking and subsequent siphoning off of earnest money deposit funds of bidders to the tune of Rs 11.55 crore from the bank account of the e-procurement cell, Centre for e-Governance, Government of Karnataka.
E-Governance portal hacked
During the investigation, it was revealed that one Srikrishna alias Sriki had hacked the portal of the Centre for e-Governance, and funds to the tune of Rs 10.5 crore and Rs 1.05 crore were diverted to bank accounts of an NGO, Uday Grama Vikash Sanstha, Nagpur and a company, Nimmi Enterprises, Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, respectively. Thereafter, Uday Grama Vikash Sanstha layered the received funds into the bank accounts of various vendors/traders in the guise of business transactions, i.e., without actual purchase/sale of goods by the NGO. Similarly, Nimmi Enterprises layered the received funds into the bank accounts of various vendors/persons in the guise of business transactions and personal loans.
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