CBI grills Rajasthan-based CA, real estate agent in Rs 1,000 crore Syndicate Bank fraud case

Date : Mar 19, 2016

A Rajasthan-based Chartered Accountant (CA) and a real estate agent were on Thursday questioned by the CBI in connection with its probe in Rs 1,000 crore Syndicate Bank fraud case.

While the CA, Bharat Bamb was questioned in the agency headquarters here, Shankar Khandelwal was grilled in its Jaipur office, official sources said on Thursday.

The CBI officials have also recovered Rs 67 lakh cash and three hard discs from one of the employees, identified as Mahendra, of the CA, they said.

Both Bamb and Khandelwal have been detained and questioned, the sources said.

In this scam, four businessmen allegedly managed to open 386 accounts in three branches of Syndicate Bank in Rajasthan in connivance with five of its executives and defrauded it of Rs 1,000 crore using fake cheques, letter of credits and LIC policies.

Satish Kumar Goyal, General Manager (then posted at Jaipur), Sanjeev Kumar, DGM, Regional Office, Deshraj Meena, Chief Manager, MI Road Branch, Adarsh Manchanda, Malviya Nagar, all in Jaipur and Avdhesh Tiwari, AGM, Udaipur have been named in the agency's FIR.

Sources said the accused in alleged connivance with almost all the employees of the bank's three branches--two in Jaipur and one in Udaipur--created a dubious layer of fake transactions involving a shell amount of Rs 18,000 crore.

However, the amount of fraud is only Rs 1,000 crore, they said.

The sources said the accused resorted to discounting of fake cheques and bills against fake Letters of Credit and arranged over-draft limit against non-existent LIC policies.

The scam that allegedly ran through 2011-16 continued unabated escaping the audits and throwing to the wind all the formalities of KYC norms as 386 bank accounts of various nature were opened in these three branches of the public sector bank, they said.

The sources said documents submitted by genuine account holders were allegedly misused while opening these bank accounts.

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