According to reports, the SBI High Court Branch in Kolkata has lodged a complaint with the Cyber Crime Police Station, prompting a detailed investigation.
The bank’s complaint states that the fraudsters used counterfeit PAN and Aadhaar cards with Banerjee’s photograph superimposed on them to update the KYC details of his old account. On October 28, 2025, they replaced the registered mobile number, gaining full access to the account. Soon after, they conducted multiple online transactions, siphoning off around ₹56.39 lakh through internet banking.
Investigators revealed that the stolen funds were routed through several beneficiary accounts, withdrawn via ATMs, and even spent on jewellery purchases. “We are probing the bank’s internal procedures to determine how the account was accessed and are tracing the trail of the transferred money,” said a senior officer from the Kolkata Police Cyber Crime Division.
Sources said the compromised account had been inactive for years. It was originally opened when Banerjee was serving as a Trinamool Congress MLA from Asansol (Dakshin) between 2001 and 2006, and his salary as an MLA was credited there. The dormant account was recently reactivated using the forged credentials.
Banerjee reportedly discovered the fraud after noticing that ₹55 lakh had been transferred from his personal SBI account at the Kalighat branch into the reactivated account, which was then quickly emptied. He alerted the bank, following which an FIR was registered and an internal inquiry launched.
A senior Trinamool leader close to Banerjee said the MP remains “hopeful that police will trace the culprits soon and help recover the stolen amount.”
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