Sources in the Crime Branch said the woman has continued to contact more employees of ITR, Chandipur in an effort to obtain vital information about the important defence establishment, even after the arrest of the five contractual employees. She was using US and German proxy IPs to mask the IP address of the computer she was using, sources added.
The investigation so far by the Odisha Crime Branch has revealed that the woman was using a bank account of the same international agency with she used made payments to one of the arrested ITR spies, to send money to Ram Singh in the Rajasthan case. The agency has found that a total of Rs 38,000 was paid in two installments from two Dubai accounts to Basanta Behera, one of the five arrested by Odisha Police on spying charges. While the account, from which Rs 24,000 was transferred, has already been traced, efforts are on to find details of the second account, from which Rs 14,000 was transferred to Behera’s account, sources in the agency said.