Posing As Adar Poonawalla, Scammers Loot Serum Institute Of Rs 1 Crore, 7 Arrested
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Believing a WhatsApp message was from Adar Poonawala, Satish Deshpande, one of the directors from SII, transferred Rs 1.01 crore into those accounts, only to realise later that the company had been cheated.
In a major breakthrough, the Pune Police said today that they have arrested seven accused in the cheating case in which Serum Institute of India (SII) was cheated of over Rs 1.01 crore.
As per the complaint, Satish Deshpande, one of the directors at the Serum Institute of India or SII had received a message on WhatsApp from a person posing as SII CEO Adar Poonawalla and was asked to send money into seven different accounts in September 2022.
Believing the message was from Adar Poonawala, Satish Deshpande transferred Rs 1.01 crore into those accounts, only to realise later that the company had been cheated.
A complaint in this regard was registered and during the investigation, police zeroed in on the eight accounts to which the money was transferred.
