25 Proxy Accounts Uncover Suspected Money Laundering

They Explained That Hawala Operators Often Use Similar Proxy Accounts For Financial Transactions

- HT Correspondent

LUCKNOW: Money transactions worth several crores detected in 25 salary bank accounts of a private bank branch in Bareilly, operational under different names, have raised suspicions of a major money laundering or 'Hawala' (illegal and unaccounted money transactions) network behind these proxy accounts, confirmed senior police officials on Friday. They said Bareilly police are further investigating the matter after registering an FIR against three bank employees at City Kotwali police station on Tuesday earlier this week. Bareilly circle officer (CO) City-I, Pankaj Kumar Srivastava, informed that the FIR was lodged under Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) section 318 (4) for cheating and dishonestly inducing a person to deliver property based on findings submitted by a special team formed to probe the suspicious transactio