Ex Employee dupes Uber of Rs 1.17 Crore
A former Uber employee has been charged for duping the company of Rs. 1.17 crore by making 388 fake driver profiles and putting them on the company’s server. The money was then transferred to only 18 bank accounts linked with these fake profiles. The accused was working with the company till December 2021 as a contractor. Uber’s authorized signatory lodged the complaint in April last year. The accused’s job was to look over driver payments and update the information of the authorized drivers in the company’s spreadsheet so that the money could be transferred to the respective accounts.
FIR registered
Uber during its inquiry, discovered that out of the 388 fake driver profiles, 191 profiles were made using the same IP addresses associated with the accused man’s system.
“To avoid inconveniencing driver partners, a spreadsheet is automatically uploaded regularly. A large number of transactions were processed by this automated spreadsheet and the accused was responsible for updating the details of the driver-partner accounts to be paid,” Uber said in the complaint. The man created and made various fake driver partners’ accounts in the spreadsheet.
According to the police, the accused has been booked under sections 408 (criminal breach of trust by a servant), 420 (cheating), 477-A (falsification of accounts), and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC.
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