CBI arrests head constable for accepting bribe
After negotiations, the accused agreed to accept Rs 20,000, the Central probe agency said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a senior Punjab National Bank (PNB) official who was the General Manager at the bank’s Brady House branch as multiple probe agencies continued with their probe into the Rs 11,515 crore fraud.
Rajesh Jindal was the branch head at Brady House — the bank’s flagship lending window in Mumbai and its second largest national outlet between August 2009 and May 2011.
He was arrested late Tuesday night.
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The CBI had on Monday sealed the Brady House Branch after arrested its Chief Manager Bechu B Tewari and two of his colleagues.
Tewari was arrested along with Yashwant Joshi, Scale II Manager (Forex department) and and Praful Sawant, Scale I officer (Export), after their day long questioning by CBI sleuths in Mumbai.
A day later on Tuesday, the premier investigative agency had arrested five employees of diamond merchants Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi – the main accused in the scam.
Those arrested include three employees of the Nirav Modi group of companies and two of the Choksi-owned Gitanjali group.
The CBI had earlier arrested five PNB officials and one authorised signatory of Nirav Modi.
The multi-pronged action by the CBI, Enforcement Directorate and others comes after PNB admitted to unearthing a fraud of Rs 11,515 crore involving Modi’s companies and certain other accounts in the Brady House Branch.
The fraud, which includes money-laundering among others, concerns the Firestar Diamonds group in which the CBI last week booked Modi, his wife Ami, brother Nishal Modi and their uncle Mehul Choksi.
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