Bhubaneswar: In one of the rarest and newest types of Cyber Financial fraud, Economic Offence Wing (EOW) detected a case of huge cyber financial fraud in which more than Rs 14 crore has been siphoned off by manipulating QR codes of a Fintech company.
The EOW, Bhubaneswar has arrested accused Karan Kumar Singh, a resident of Cec-19, Noida, UP, from Noida, UP, on 06.07.2023 in EOW PS Case No.21 dt.29.06.2023 U/s 420/406/467/468/471/120-B IPC, read with Sec. 65 & Sec 66 (D) of IT Act, said an official press release issued by the EOW today.
The accused was produced before Chief Judicial Magistrate, Goutam Budha Nagar, UP, on 07.07.23 and was brought to Bhubaneswar on the strength of 3 days transit remand for his production before the Designated Court under OPID –cum- Spl Court for EOW, at Cuttack.
This case was registered on the report of Sanjib Kumar Parida, Chief Technology Officer of ‘IServeU Technology Pvt Ltd.’, a Bhubaneswar-based Fintech Company with the allegation that during April-May-2023, they had entered into Technology integration agreements with the Directors of Noida based Company M/s Payone Digital Services Pvt. Ltd., providing Digital Payment Services, for facilitation of the Finotech Service, and accordingly IServeU had extended its UPI API to the company for the commercial utilization.
Karan Kumar Singh and his brother Lallu Singh are the Directors of M/s Payone Digital Services Pvt. Ltd. On 19.06.2023, the complainant’s company came to know on reconciliation that there is a significant difference in the cash balance in their Nodal Bank account maintained with the FINO Bank.
On verification of the UPI logs, it came to light that Karan Singh and Lallu Singh both Directors of M/s Payone Digital Services Pvt. Ltd by manipulating the QR Codes generated by the complainant company has embezzled the extra credit of Rs 14.33 crore approximately of the complainant’s company IServeU and fraudulently diverted the amount to more than 125 different Bank Accounts from the Payout wallet of which, the User ID and Password were shared to Payone Digital Services Pvt. Ltd by the Complainant company IServeU.
It is suspected that there are many other accused who are also involved in this complex and highly technical case. As there are no such type of cases noticed before, EOW would be taking the help of experts, in this case, to thoroughly investigate the matter and also come up with an advisory so that people can be alerted.
