Cop held in Rs140mn airline ticket scandal

Mumbai: Revelations about a Rs140mn ($3mn) online air ticket scam have just got murkier with the Mumbai Police stumbling upon the alleged involvement of a decorated police official.
Assistant Inspector Tushar Kadam, the recipient of a police award for relief work in the July 26, 2005 deluge, was arrested and suspended on Thursday after the Economic Offence Wing (EOW) found he had flown for work to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh on air tickets obtained by one of the scamsters.
The fraud came to light in January after Kingfisher Airlines lodged a complaint with the EOW Dec 21 regarding the massive scale on which online tickets were being booked fraudulently.
Police said the EOW was investigating whether Kadam was directly involved in the crime or whether he had aided and abetted the accused scamsters.
Sources in the EOW, however, said that Kadam may have known about the whole racket, but had turned a “blind eye” to the scam in exchange of air tickets.
A nine-member gang of scamsters had purchased some 15,000-airline tickets online “misusing” credit card information of ICICI Bank credit card holders.
17/02/07 Gulf Times, Qatar

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Categories: General Aviation feb 2007, kingfisher feb 2007