Salt Lake: The cyber crime police station in Salt Lake has arrested a finance manager and an accountant of a garment manufacturing and exporting company in Sector V for allegedly siphoning off more than Rs 1.5 crore of the firm's funds.

The accused have been identified as Amit Lohia, 33, a resident of Baguiati, and Sailendar Choubey, 31, from Howrah. Both were picked up from Sector V on the basis of a complaint lodged by Anil Kariwala, the managing director of Kariwala Industries.

According to the complaint, the duo had transferred money from the company's accounts to the accounts they had opened keeping the management in the dark.

The two had unhindered access to the firm's bank accounts as they were in charge of payment to vendors and suppliers of raw materials, an officer investigating the case said.