An accountant of a company owned by Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister Nand Gopal Gupta's was allegedly duped of Rs 2.08 crore by cyber frauds, police said on Saturday.
On the complaint of Ritesh Srivastava, a case was registered on Thursday in the cyber police station against unidentified individuals under section 319 (2), 318 (4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and sections 66C and 66D of the Information Technology Act, they said.
Srivastava works for Icavo Agro Daily Private Limited, owned by the minister and managed by his son Abhishek Gupta.
According to the complaint, Srivastava received a WhatsApp message on November 13 from a number displaying Abhishek's profile photo.
The sender claimed it was a new number and sought sensitive financial information related to a proposed business meeting, the complainant said.
Believing the message to be genuine, Sivastava shared the company's account details on that number following the instructions of the company's director, it ...