30,000 Pounds siphoned off from UK account: Two held

Two employees of a leading BPO here were arrested and remanded to judicial custody in Puzhal jail here today for siphoning off 30,000 British Pounds by hacking a savings account in the United Kingdom and diverting it to another bank account in that country, police said.
D Ezhilmaran, S Raghavagiri and Ramu who were employed with Atos India IT Services, a BPO company here, had hacked into the account of Dolphy, a customer of National Savings and Investments (NSI), a government backed savings organisation in the UK.
The siphoning happened in December last year and Atos, which is handling the accounts of NSI lodged a complaint in March this year.

Dolphy lodged a complaint with his bank after he detected a transfer of 30,000 Pounds (equivalent to Rs 27 lakh) without his knowledge to another bank account. Subsequently, Atos lodged a complaint with the Chennai Police and the case was handed over to the Cyber crime branch.
Probe revealed that the trio had transferred the money to the Lloyds Bank account of their friend Francis alias Das, a student in the UK who was facing "financial constraints." The siphoned money was later restored to Dolphy's account.
"Ezhilmaran and Raghavagiri hold Masters degree in Computer Science. Ramu is a software engineer and all are first time offenders," S Jayakumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police who supervised the investigation told PTI adding the trio had now been dismissed from the company.

"Ramu is absconding," he said.