Techie arrested for duping Income Tax department of over Rs 1 crore

BENGALURU: A cyber fraudster was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for allegedly cheating on income tax by hacking I-T refund accounts. He allegedly cheated the Income Tax Department of Rs 1,41,84,360 on the pretext of updating the KYC details.

The police said the accused Dileep Rajegowda is an habitual offender involved in unauthorised accessing of sensitive information from government portals meant for the public. The investigation was held under the guidance of CID SP M D Sharat.

Dileep is an engineering graduate. He was brought up at Hiresave in Hassan, but resided in Dharwad. He was working as a techie and would track defects in the Income Tax Department website. He altered refund accounts and used to open fake bank accounts, and update KYC details by taking information of IT payers. After the KYC update, all refund amounts will go to the accused’s account. Previously, he defrauded the I-T Department of Rs 3.60 crore by hacking accounts.

Dileep Rajegowda, a hacker. has been arrested for siphoning off income tax refunds.

Dileep was also involved in a car loan fraud case. He cheated Bajaj company by providing fake documents to get a loan. This too came to light during the investigation. He had also registered on the Karnataka’s government property registration portal Kaveri. He has been taken into police custody for further investigation.

Earlier, Srikrishna alias hacker Sriki was also involved in a similar case and had registered himself on the Kaveri web portal.