The accused, identified as Sankar Mondal hailing from Krishnadebpur in Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal is a diploma student having knowledge of computer networks, Mandal used the services of his childhood friend Pintu Sardar in tracking transactions of several online wallets. The duo had trapped victims and extracted amounts since 2019 using phone numbers and bank account numbers linked to the said online wallets.

Mondal used six bank accounts of his associates and got the siphoned money deposited into them, after which he immediately shifted them into other accounts. “The accused used different SIM cards and phones to trap the victims to conceal his location and identity from the police. He trapped more than 200 victims across the country,” said Superintendent of Police K.K.N. Anburajan at a media conference here on Thursday.