Bankura police on Saturday recovered 90 mobile phones dumped near a pond in Chhatna.

The phones were allegedly used to receive OTPs (one-time passwords) issued via fictitious e-wallets to route money cheated from bank accounts of unsuspecting victims.

Interrogation of nine persons arrested so far after the racket was busted on Wednesday also led the police to nab one Bibhas Karmakar on Saturday. He supplied forged identity proofs for SIM cards.

“We suspect a few more involved in the racket have abandoned the basic mobile phones that used to receive OTPs. We have also arrested another person in this connection. Probe is to get to the root of the racket. We are waiting for forensic lab reports of some smartphones to get details of end-users,” said Dhritiman Sarkar, the Bankura superintendent of police, on Saturday.

Till Saturday, the police arrested 10 youths, including alleged mastermind of the e-wallet racket Abhishek Mondal, seized over 8,000 SIM cards and several computers and smartphones.

Bankura police on Saturday recovered 90 mobile phones dumped near a pond in Chhatna.