Scammers Posing As Adar Poonawalla Defraud Serum Institute For $1 Million, And 7 Of Them Are Arrested
In a significant development, the Pune Police announced that they had detained seven suspects in the case involving the theft of more than 1.01 crore from the Serum Institute of India (SII).
According to the complaint, in September 2022, Satish Deshpande, a director at the Serum Institute of India (SII), received a message on WhatsApp from a person impersonating SII CEO Adar Poonawalla requesting money be sent to seven different accounts.
Satish Deshpande transferred 1.01 crore into those accounts under the impression that the message came from Adar Poonawala, only to discover later that the business had been defrauded.
In response to a complaint filed in this respect, police conducted an investigation and identified the eight accounts to which the funds were transferred.
She continued by saying that they had confiscated all of these accounts in addition to another 40 accounts into which these eight accounts’ cash had been transferred.
Three suspects who were involved in the crime were detained on 25 November by the Pune City Police’s Cyber Unit.
More information is awaited.
News Mania Desk
