Rourkela police bust mule-account racket, arrest three bank staff aiding cybercrime syndicate

ROURKELA: Four persons including three employees of private banks were arrested by Rourkela police on charges of opening mule accounts on behalf of an organised criminal syndicate for channelising proceeds of cyber crimes and money laundering.

Police identified the accused as sales manager of IndusInd Bank Sitanshu Kumar Swain (35), cashier of Kotak Mahindra Bank Siba Sankar Pattnayak (32) and local branch head of Mahindra Finance Prabhanjan Nayak (26) who had recently quit IndusInd Bank. The fourth accused is Ajay Kumar Sha.