Two months after Annu Kapoor was duped of Rs. 4.36 lakh by cyber fraudsters, the Oshiwara (Bombay) police have arrested an accused in whose bank account the defrauded amount was received. The accused, Ashish Paswan, hails from Darbhanga (Bihar) and was in Bombay to meet someone when the police apprehended him recently. The mastermind in the case is still at large.
Annu Kapoor was heading to a shooting on September 29 when he received a phone call in which the caller got talking to him about his KYC details for his account in a private bank. Barely ten minutes after Annu shared his bank account number and OTP with the caller, he was informed by his bank that his account had been compromised. A total of Rs. 4.36 lakh had been transferred out of his account in two instalments within minutes. The actor approached the police who managed to freeze around Rs. 3.08 lakh.