This is a complaint filed by the Deputy Director
of Enforcement as against the accused under Section
45(1) of Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002
(in short PML Act) seeking to punish them for the
offence punishable under section 4 of the Act.
2. The Accused no.1 is a trust represented
by Accused no.2 who is the President/chief founder
and trustee of the Accused no.1 – trust. Accused
No.3 to 8 have entered into an agreements of sale /
lease deed with the Accused no.1 under various
Agreements of sale and Lease deed agreeing to sell /
Lease their respective properties in favour of the
Accused no.1 – trust represented by Accused no2.
3. The complainant’s case as could be seen
from the complaint is that, the accused no.2 is a
President and Chief Functionary of accused no.1 –
trust which was registered on 30/5/2005 along with
other trustees. The said trust is running “Divya
Shakthi Oldage Home” in a rented premises at No. 9,
Hanumanth Nagar, Bileshivale, Doddagubbi Post,
Bangalore. The accused no.2 has opened a website
www.scr.trust.org in the month of March 2009 and
so also a payment gateway through ICICI Merchant
Services Pvt. Ltd.,so as to receive donations. It is
specifically stated that the accused no.1 trust along
with accused no.2 and other trustees indulged in
995 fraudulent transactions using compromised
credit card data with the help of other unknown
fraudsters and received an amount of
Rs.15,68,53,627 during 1/7/2010 to 13/8/2010
through the above said gateway provided to them by
their above said official website of the trust. On the
basis of the complaint lodged by one Smt. Maria
Reuben, the authorized signatory of ICICI Merchant
Services Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, a case came to be
registered by the Cyber Crime Police Station Ltd.,
Bangalore in their Crime No. 28/2010 dated
9/9/2010 as against the accused no.1 and 2. It is
alleged that, they have committed the offences
punishable under Section 420 of IPC which is a
scheduled offence under Prevention of Money
Laundering Act and also the offences punishable
under Section 66(c) and 66(d) of Information
Technology Act, 2000.
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