The accused worked as a contractor in the driver operations team at its office on Golf Course Road from August 2021 to December 2021

New Delhi, February 1

The Gurugram Police booked a former Uber employee for allegedly cheating the company of Rs 1.17 crore by creating over 388 fake driver partner accounts and fraudulently transferring the money to those accounts.

The police received a complaint from an authorised signatory of Uber India Systems Private Limited in Gurugram.

The police stated that the accused worked as a contractor in the driver operations team at its office on Golf Course Road from August 2021 to December 2021. He was hired through a vendor and was responsible for driver arrears function, which involved handling of arrears due from driver partners to Uber. However, he had resigned on December 19, 2021.

According to the police, the accused created and placed non-genuine driver partner accounts in a company spreadsheet. “This was not a part of his scope of work and these accounts did not require any payments to be applied. Internal enquiries by the company found that the non genuine-driver partner accounts were created in bulk and in 191 cases out of 388, the IP addresses which were used to create these fake accounts matched with the IP addresses used by the accused to log into his work computer.

Of the 388 drivers, 345 had a phone number attached to their account and all 345 phone numbers were unique. Aside from a few duplicates, the names on the accounts were all different as well. There are 388 driver partner accounts which received money fraudulently and the money had been paid into 18 bank accounts. Each bank account was linked to many fake partner accounts, police investigation found.

The police have booked the accused under sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 408 (criminal breach of trust by clerk or servant), 420 (cheating) and 477-A (falsification of accounts) of the Indian Penal Code.