Rs 1.25 crore found in 40 accounts of terror suspects, family members

BENGALURU: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) police, who are probing the five terror suspects arrested in Bangaluru have obtained the details of more than 40 bank accounts belonging the arrested and their family members. Shockingly, the accounts show lakhs of rupees transferred into the accounts of the suspects, who were doing only petty jobs.

According to the police, the deposits were made through foreign accounts and More than Rs 1.25 crore of transactions have been credited to five suspected terrorist accounts. It has been found that Junaid has deposited the money in the accounts of suspects Suhail, Tabrez, Rabbani, Mudasir, and Umar from abroad for carrying out terror activities. Besides, lakhs of rupees were transferred from the suspects’ accounts to third parties’ accounts. The CCB officials are now digging out information of the recipients.

The officials confirmed that all the money was transferred from a foreign account. The police have only the account number and not the name of the account holder. They now plan to approach the Interpol through the liasioning central agency to get more details about the foreign bank account and the name of the account holder.