Seven persons, six of them employees of a cooperative bank in Thane, have been booked for allegedly defrauding customers and the bank to the tune of around Rs. 7 crore, reports PTI.
An FIR in this regard was registered last evening and later the case transferred to the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) for further probe, Inspector G D Pingle of Chitalsar Police Station said.
The accused, including a branch manager, were booked under IPC sections related to cheating, forgery, dishonest misappropriation of property, criminal breach of trust, falsification of accounts and also provisions of the IT Act, one of them related to hacking of computer system, he said.
The alleged crime took place at Lok Puram branch of the CKP Cooperative Bank. The case was registered based on a complaint submitted by Raju Phanse, a Director of the bank.