Morung Express News
Mokokchung | July 25
Mokokchung police have taken into custody three persons accused of being involved in a grand ATM heist after receiving complaint from an ATM cash services firm. Mokokchung police received a written complaint on July 23 from the Regional Head of Northeast SIS Cash Services Pvt. Ltd. to the effect that some of their employees had “manipulated ATM money” while replenishing the ATMs in Mokokchung.
An Operations Executive of the cash services firm rushed to Mokokchung from Jorhat to audit all the ATMs in Mokokchung during which it was detected that there was “shortage/missing of cash” from 18 of the 19 ATMs in Mokokchung amounting to Rs.2,50,25,700/- (Two crore, fifty lakh, twenty five thousand and seven hundred).
Mokokchung police immediately swung into action and detained some suspects. Upon investigation, police established that one Limatemjen Molier (31 yrs) of Dibiua village presently residing at Aongza Ward, Mokokchung, an employee of the firm as 1st Custodian was the main accused.
Police also detained his younger brother, one Imtimendang, 29 years, and one Imtisunep (21 yrs) of Kelingmen village, a private security with the firm, presently residing at Alempang Ward, Mokokchung. During police interrogation, the main accused Limatemjen admitted that he had committed the theft by not loading the cash to the ATMs on multiple occasions.
According to police, the accused divulged that while loading the cash to the ATMs, a colleague of the accused, the 2nd Custodian, and two security staffs mostly remained outside while he alone used to load the cash to the ATMs. “So, instead of loading the whole amount in the ATMs, he used to often hide some amount in the backroom of the ATM booths and used to collect it later,” a police report said.
The main accused would then hand over the cash to his younger brother, Imtimendang, who used to transfer the cash through cheque and CDM (Cash Deposit Machine) to various accounts in Dimapur and Kohima. During investigation, Imtisunep, Private Security SIS, was also found to be involved in the case as most of the transactions were done through his SBI account through cheque, the police report further said.
Besides the main accused, the other two accused have been found to be involved in the crime by abetting the main accused and a case has been registered against them at Mokokchung Police Station 1 under sections 379/409/420/414/411/34 of the IPC. The missing cash is yet to be recovered and further investigation is under process.
