Karwar: A sum of Rs. 2.69 Crore was swindled by its officer from Bank of Baroda in Yallapura in Uttara Kannada District, recently. The District Police have succeeded in arresting the accused, an Assistant Manager in the cheating case, said SP Dr. Suman Pennekar.
Kumar Bonala, an Assistant Manager from Andhra Pradesh, who had transferred money from the current account of Bank of Baroda in Yallapura to his wife’s account, was finally taken into custody by the Yallapura Police in Hubballi. The police are continuing with the interrogation of the accused.
During preliminary interrogation, the accused has revealed that he had lost all the money he had swindled due to his addiction to online games. He was withdrawing money from his bank account and playing online.
Now that the accused has lost all the money he had after playing an online games, the question now is how to recover Rs. 2.69 Crore. But the account holders need not worry about this, the SP informed. The loot was the bank current account money and not the customer’s money, she added.
