CBI arrests 9 in Indian Bank fraud case for alleged swindling of over Rs.100 crore term deposits of CPT
The CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) has arrested nine people for alleged swindling of over Rs.100 crore term deposits of Chennai Port Trust (CPT) in Indian Bank by foreclosing them, officials said on Tuesday. The agency had started the probe on July 31, 2020, against officials of the bank, private persons, and other unidentified people on the allegations that term deposits of CPT worth over Rs.100.57 crore maintained at the bank were foreclosed as part of the conspiracy and the amount was withdrawn and transferred to different accounts, they said. “It was further alleged that a loss to the tune of Rs.45.40 crore was caused to Indian Bank by way of foreclosing/ pre-closing of several term deposits,” Central Bureau of Investigation spokesperson R C Joshi said.
After over a year of the exhaustive probe, the CBI on Monday night arrested nine people, identified as Ganesh Natarajan, V. Manimozhi, J. Selvakumar, K. Zakir Hussain, M. Vijay Heralld, M Rajesh Singh, S. Siyadh, S. Afsar, and V. Sudalaimuthu. Chennai Port Trust regularly invested in term deposits for which it had open tenders, which was bagged by the Koyembedu Branch of Indian Bank, they said.
CBI had carried out searches at 22 locations, including at Chennai, Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, and Nagercoil, which led to the recovery of several incriminating documents and material objects, he said.
“In that process, a total of Rs.100.57 crore (approximately) was transferred from CPT in five investments against which 45 Term Deposits of different amounts were created. Out of the total amount invested, Rs.55.19 crore could be frozen after the detection of the fraud, and the remaining Rs.45.40 crore were swindled by the accused,” Joshi said. Once the deposits were created, Natarajan went to the branch introducing himself as the Deputy Director (Finance) of Chennai Port Trust, where he opened a fake current account in the name of CPT at the branch on the basis of forged documents.
“After the receipt of investment from CPT on every occasion, the Bank created term deposit receipts (Bond) against the said investment, and the said bond was received by the accused (Natarajan) from the bank directly. Instead of delivering the original bond to CPT, the accused made duplicate bonds and submitted the forged bonds to CPT,” Joshi said. With original bonds in possession, the accused allegedly approached the bank and pre-closed deposits within days of their creation. The amount was transferred to fake accounts of CPT created in the bank and further, it was transferred to 28 different accounts. “The amount was subsequently transferred to 28 different accounts, which was withdrawn by the account holders and handed over to the accused persons,” Joshi said.
The CBI had carried out searches at 22 locations, including at Chennai, Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, and Nagercoil, which led to the recovery of several incriminating documents and material objects, he said. Out of the nine arrested accused, eight were produced before a Special Judge for CBI cases, Chennai, and remanded to judicial custody, Joshi said. The remaining one accused arrested from Tirunelveli was taken on transit remand from the Competent Court, he said.
[with PTI inputs]
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Corruption, scams, financial frauds…etc., seems to be the way of life in India !! i.e. Gods are excluded ? NO. For Tamilnadu & elsewhere they stole God’s idols & sold /smuggled them to west !! Politicians were happy with that loot
Later keep crying for food rations, jobs, evening watch movies with free cable TV.
Tamilnadu is one of the deeply rotten states in India.
It appears that all 9 persons are Christians (born / converted) & Muslims (read jihadi supporters) …. a perfect potpourri combination of aided minds & acts. Are there any external hands in this financial bungling ? which is used for disbursing incentives to converted people ? or to make bombs for use at later time?
Pgurus,
Congratulations and thank you for publishing such important NEWS on a regular basis. It is unfortunate that the MSM conveniently ignore such development oriented news – what a shame?