Bengaluru: Investigations into the murder case of Prabha Arun Kumar, a software engineer from Bengaluru stabbed to death in Sydney in March 2015, have revealed a suspicious fund transfer from Prabha’s compensation amount to a woman’s account in Sri Lanka.

The murder is being investigated by special detective squad, Strike Force Marcoala of New South Wales, Australia.

Prabha’s account had been credited with Rs 1 crore, which included the Australian government’s compensation and benefits from life insurance following her death. While Prabha’s husband happens to be the legal nominee to receive the compensation, investigations revealed that funds had been transferred to ? a woman’s account in Sri Lanka in 2015-16.

NWS detectives probing into the case had earlier in January visited Bengaluru and interrogated as well as verified details of accounts of Prabha’s family members and her husband Arun Kumar.

The sleuths were told that the woman, a techie from Bengaluru, was Prabha’s family friend and the funds had been transferred to her account to help her overcome a financial crisis.

The woman was in Sri Lanka on an official assignment in 2015-16 and had opened an account there. She was a close friend of the man who transferred the funds.

The woman made a statement to Australian investigators that she received the funds as loan to overcome a financial crisis.

The investigators did not find any convincing evidence to establish a link between the suspicious transfer of funds and Prabha’s murder, sources said.

An unidentified man had followed her and slit her throat on March 7, 2015, while she was passing through a Sydney park about 300 metres away from her house, minutes after she got down from a tram.

A native of Nandagokula in Amtoor near Kalladka in Bantwal taluk, Prabha had moved to Bengaluru in 1998. She was sent to Australia for a project for a year by her employer Mindtree in 2012.