Bangaluru: A money transfer of  Rs.1 crore took place from the account of Prabha Arun Kumar who was murdered in Sydney in March 2015.

Prabha was a software engineer from Bangalore who was stabbed to death during her work tour to Sydney in 2015. But recently the Australian investigators made a discovery, revealing a suspicious transfer of funds to a woman in Sri Lanka from Prabha’s compensation amount

According to CID sources her husband Arun Kumar was the legal nominee to receive the compensation amount of her death allotted by the Australian government and benefits of life insurance policy which were deposited into her account after her death. A special task force, Strike Force Marcoala of New South Waves was investigating Prabha’s murder case. During the investigation, they found out that the money had been transferred to a woman’s account in Sri Lanka in year 2015-16.

After making this discovery, the detectives visited Prabha’s family in Bangalore during January to enquire about the suspicious fund transfer. They questioned Arun Kumar and members of Prabha’s family to verify details of the account.

It came to light that the woman from Sri Lanka was actually a techie from Bangalore and Prabha’s family friend. The detectives were told that the funds were transferred into her account because she needed the money due to a financial crisis and she was in Sri Lanka on an official assignment in 2105-16. The woman also made a statement to the Australian investigator that she only received the money as a loan to overcome a financial crisis.

Prabha was a native of Nandagokula in Amtoor near Kalladka in Bantwal taluk and had moved to Bangalore in 1998. She was sent to Australia for a project by her employer Mindtree in 2012. She was murdered there in a park about 300 meters away from her house as a unidentified man followed her and slit her throat on March 7 2015.

Her assailant had been captured into the CCTV and the sleuths interrogated over 30 men involved in crimes in Sydney, resembling the assailant but it did not bear any results. They also detained and interrogated a 27 yrs old man who had stabbed two women in same park earlier but he too was not involved in the murder.

After the discovery of the suspicious fund transfer some hope was created of finding Prabha’s assailant and solving the case but the investigators were not able to find any convincing evidence to link the transfer of funds to Prabha’s murder