Ahmedabad: Navrangpura police have booked a Nikol resident and two unidentified men under Gujarat Police’s Operation Mule after a probe revealed that a bank account allegedly used by the accused had routed Rs 41.7 crore linked to cyberfrauds reported across the country.According to the FIR, police analysed suspicious bank accounts through the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre’s (I4C) Samanvay portal and found that a current account opened with Cosmos Co-operative Bank’s Navrangpura branch had figured in 118 cybercrime complaints registered in different states, including Gujarat, Maharashtra, Delhi, Karnataka, Telangana and Tamil Nadu.The FIR names Nikol resident Vijay Solanki along with two unidentified persons. According to police, Solanki, during questioning, told investigators that an acquaintance introduced him to the two when he was looking to avail himself of a business loan about a year ago. The trio allegedly took him to the bank, got the account opened in the name of a trading firm and retained the cheque book, ATM card, passbook and internet banking credentials.
