An accountant in Mumbai has been booked for allegedly stealing over Rs 15 crore from company’s bank accounts for doing online gambling. According to Mumbai police, he transferred more than Rs 15 crore into his personal account for online gambling and lost.

As per a ToI report, Kapil Khunt worked as an accountant in a share trading company for 14 years and he was a trusted employee, the company’s owner revealed. According to a police complaint lodged by the owner of the company at Borivli police station, he had shared the login id and password of the company’s bank account with Khunt.

Last month, company officials found some funds missing from company’s bank account. After scrutiny, they found out a suspicious fund transfer to an account. In further investigation, it was found that the money was transferred to Khunt’s personal account. Khunt transferred Rs 15.37 crore to his personal account since January 2021 till September this year.

When officials cross questioned Khunt about the suspicious transaction, he confessed that he stole money for gambling but all the money. “The accountant wanted to get rich quick through gambling for which he pinched the office funds initially. After he lost it to gambling, he continued to dip into the office funds, hoping to recoup lost money through gambling.”