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2 held over MGNREGS funds
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Bolangir, Feb 11: Local police arrested two persons in connection with the fraudulent
transfer of MGNREGS funds in the district. Dharmendra Thakur and Sujit Agrawal
of Patnagarh were arrested for allegedly transferring `4.97 lakh to other
accounts by hacking the username and password of two government departments and
obtaining a ‘digital signature certificate’ (DSC) from NIC Bhubaneswar in the
name of another person.
Giving details of the sequence of events to media persons at a press meet Wednesday, Additional SP B Jugal Kishore said: “Dharmendra Thakur, who was earlier working as a computer operator in Belpada Block, washandling MGNREGS payments of that Block and was involved in fraudulentonline funds transfer.”
Thakur had collected the user names and passwords of various departments and after that he opened eleven accounts by using fake voter IDs and photographs in SBI Patnagarh. After accessing the official sites by using the user name and password, he uploaded the names of the fake account holders in theMGNREGS website to make them appear genuine, Jugal Kishore said.
Giving details of the sequence of events to media persons at a press meet Wednesday, Additional SP B Jugal Kishore said: “Dharmendra Thakur, who was earlier working as a computer operator in Belpada Block, washandling MGNREGS payments of that Block and was involved in fraudulentonline funds transfer.”
Thakur had collected the user names and passwords of various departments and after that he opened eleven accounts by using fake voter IDs and photographs in SBI Patnagarh. After accessing the official sites by using the user name and password, he uploaded the names of the fake account holders in theMGNREGS website to make them appear genuine, Jugal Kishore said.
Then he proceeded to NIC Bhubaneswar with a letter in the name of Jagabandhu
Sahu, as executive officer of Tendapadar GP in Patnagrh Block wherein the
signature of the BDO was forged and obtained the ‘digital signature
certificate’.“After obtaining the DSC, Thakur accessed the site, deleted the
DSC there and registered the DSC he obtained in the name of Sahu. He accessed
the sites of the horticulture and forest departments and transferred the money
to the accounts he had opened in SBI Patnagarh and withdrew money,” the ASP
said.
“During investigation, it was also learnt that he had forged the signature of
BDO Belpada and a payment of `90,000 has been made to a computer firmtowards
execution of a project in Yuba panchayat of Belpada Block. Bills have also been
submitted to show that theproject was genuine,” Jugal Kishore said. A three-member cyber expert team from
Bhubaneswar investigated the
entire sequence of events and furtherinvestigation is on, he said.
===================================================================entire sequence of events and furtherinvestigation is on, he said.
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