Gurugram, February 25 A former employee of a private company here was arrested for defrauding over Rs 90 lakh by creating a complex web of transactions to create fake invoices using the firm's funds, police said on Wednesday.
Working as an operations administrator from 2017, the woman, in collaboration with an accountant, committed the fraud by changing the bank accounts of vendors, creating fake invoices, and transferring money to the bank accounts of their relatives, they added.
The accountant, Amit, has already been arrested for the fraud committed between 2020 and 2023. Pooja Rani (34) was arrested on Tuesday from Faridabad.
On September 3, 2024, a representative of Miniso Life Style Private Limited Company, Sector 48, filed a complaint that the duo had defrauded crores of rupees by changing the bank accounts of company vendors, creating fake vendors, and transferring money from the company's bank accounts to the bank accounts of their relatives. An FIR was registered at the Sector 50 police station.
"During interrogation, she revealed that a total of Rs 91,99,617 of the defrauded amount was transferred to the bank accounts," she said.
"She confessed to working with Amit to commit the fraud by creating fake invoices, fake vendors, and changing the bank accounts of the company's vendors from the year 2020 to 2023. We are further questioning the woman," said a spokesperson for the Gurugram Police.