Punjab: Vigilance Bureau arrests clerk for keeping bribe money received by tainted officer
The nabbed officer has been identified as Rohit Sharma alias Rohit Kumar who is a clerk posted at SDM Malerkotla.
The nabbed officer has been identified as Rohit Sharma alias Rohit Kumar who is a clerk posted at SDM Malerkotla.
EOW traced around Rs 19.49 crore believed to have been routed through the company and channelised the proceeds of the crime.
A deputy manager in an SBI branch is accused of sanctioning a loan against ineligible persons without the knowledge of the borrowers.
The EOW took up the investigation of the scam after Dibyajyoti Kar of Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar lodged a complaint alleging that he was deceived by the Ponzi unit.
The accused was involved in a Ponzi scheme and cheated victims by making them invest in their enterprise for good return.
The officials suspect that the Chinese nationals are also running a similar scam in countries like Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh.
The accused identified as Suryamani Tripathy and Amit Kumar from Cuttack and Bhubaneswar were later remanded to judicial custody. Search is on to arrest another person Rajesh Gahlot also involved in the crime.
The accused had uploaded the forged documents about the supply of 500 rice transplant machines to farmers of as many as 18 districts through the State Direct Benefit Transfer portal and misappropriated Rs six crores in the process.
