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Thursday, April 14, 2005


Great, now I have to worry about people stealing my identity in India.
On Wednesday, the Pune police arrested two more people in connection with the crime, taking the total number of people arrested to 16. The two individuals arrested on Wednesday — Anand Karnawat (25) of Wadgaon Sheri and Ashish Thakur of Balajinagar — have been remanded to police custody till April 16. The duo, who were home loan representatives, used rejected home loan applications to open bank accounts in false names.

This acted as a conduit for the money siphoned off by the call centre employees from the accounts of New York-based customers of Citigroup.

The cyber crime, believed to be the first such to have come to light, lead to the arrest, initially, of 12 people on April 6. Later, as the scope of the investigations widened, two more people were arrested on April 12 and sent to police custody till April 15.
Money changing hands over several different countries? What could possibly go wrong?

Expect much more of this.



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