A "dormant" account associated with Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee was used to steal around Rs 56 lakh from his bank account, making him a victim of cybercrime.
According to Dwaipayan Ghosh, the bank has lodged a complaint with the cybercrime unit of Kolkata Police. Banerjee and other lawmakers opened accounts at a public sector bank's legislative assembly sub branch, which is part of the high court branch, between 2001 and 2006. This account received all of his MLA allowances.
Banerjee, a current Serampore MP, said that this old account was "dormant" because there had been no transactions in it for a considerable amount of time.
This account was used by the scammers to further their plan. Banerjee claimed that on Thursday, he received a call from the HC branch manager alerting him to the fraud.
Police believe that Rs 56 lakh was moved from the MP's Kalighat branch account to the "dormant" account using his photo and mobile number, and then the full amount was taken out.
"By overlaying a new image on the seemingly authentic documents, the thief created a fake PAN and Aadhaar card. On October 28, they replaced the registered mobile number and reset the password after updating the customer's KYC information through impersonation, according to Smita Kundu, senior manager of the bank.
