Hyderabad man booked for ₹1.64 crore travel ticket fraud
HYDERABAD: A director of Acube Business and Technologies Solutions Private Limited has lodged a complaint with the Central Crime Station (CCS) police alleging that a former employee illegally used credit card details of the company’s clients to make online travel bookings and committed fraud of about ₹1.65 crore.
Former employee allegedly misused nine credit cards
The complainant, Anirudh Cheruku Reddy, director of the Jubilee Hills-based company, alleged that Rishabh Jaggi, a resident of Vivekananda Colony in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, joined the company as a ticketing agent on January 2, 2025.
Jaggi was removed from the job in March after his performance was found unsatisfactory, the complaint said. A few days later, he allegedly started his own travel agency and began operating it online.
Police probe 386 transactions linked to bookings
According to the complaint, Jaggi illegally used the details of nine credit cards belonging to people associated with a partner company and carried out 386 fraudulent transactions.
He allegedly used the cards to make ticket and other bookings through online travel platforms, spending a total of ₹1.64 crore.
The complaint further stated that he booked more than 70 flight tickets for other passengers.
The CCS police have registered a case and launched an investigation.
