Mumbai: Police arrested a 22-year-old college student and his friend on Tuesday, who gave their bank accounts to cyber fraudsters to park Rs 2 crore extorted through digital arrest fraud for monetary consideration. The duo had received Rs 10 lakh each for allegedly duping a senior retired official of over Rs 2 crore. The accused have been identified as Sanket Balaji Salgare and Siddhant Jondhale, who works at a petrol pump in Nanded.According to SI Nandkumar Gopale, the fraud took place between Jan 31 and Feb 18, this year. The victim received calls from individuals posing as officials from CBI and Colaba Police Station. The callers falsely claimed the victim was implicated in a money laundering case. They warned of arrest and insisted the matter was a “national secret.”
