The Ahmedabad Zonal Workplace of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday mentioned it carried out search operations on November 29 in 5 instances associated to the alleged misappropriation of presidency funds in submit places of work throughout Gujarat, together with in Rajkot, Kutch, Jamnagar and Surendranagar. The searches have been carried out at 19 areas within the state below the provisions of Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA).
The motion was in consequence of those instances being investigated by the central company on the premise of a number of FIRs registered by the ACB (Anti Corruption Bureau) Gandhinagar of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Because of the searches, the ED seized an quantity to the tune of Rs 1 crore (approx). Additional, particulars of varied immovable properties exceeding Rs 1.5 crore have been recovered.
In a single case, the accused sub postmasters, in conspiracy with others, allegedly fraudulently reopened 606 Recurring Deposits (RD) accounts that had earlier been closed, after which fraudulently closed them, thereby, misappropriating authorities cash amounting to Rs 18.60 crore, as per the officers.
Within the second case, the accused, whereas working as sub postmaster at Mengni Sub Publish Workplace, Gondal Division in Rajkot, entered into legal conspiracy with others and dedicated misappropriation of presidency cash amounting Rs 9.97 crore between October 16, 2019 and November 21, 2022. The accused public servant allegedly adopted the modus operandi of manually importing faux funds by way of the utility device — SAP (Departmental Software program) in Each day Transaction Report of Mengni Sub Workplace within the head of previous Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) principal quantity and previous KVP curiosity quantities.
Within the third case, Recurring Deposit (RD) accounts of Ravalwadi submit workplace in Bhuj, Kutch, as soon as closed, have been allegedly once more closed twice or thrice with increased denomination and in names of various depositors, by creating fraudulent closure paperwork. As a substitute of depositing the accepted quantity, the accused diverted the closure quantities of fraudulent RD accounts to new accounts below varied schemes by mentioning “re-investment” on solid RD closure kinds, officers added.
Within the Ravalwadi case, as per the ED assertion, one other strategy of dishonest clients was that the accused used to just accept deposits from their clients for opening of latest accounts, concern passbooks to them by reusing previous passbook/ new faux passbook however in reality they didn’t open any account of their names in Sanchay submit (FINACLE) system.
Within the fourth case, the accused, who was the then Sub postmaster of Surajkuji Sub Publish Workplace of Jamnagar Division, allegedly knowingly used solid paperwork as real, for the aim of pecuniary benefit and thereby, misappropriated authorities cash, inflicting wrongful loss to the Publish Places of work to the tune of Rs 2 .94 crore. In a fifth case, the accused – Financial savings Financial institution Postal Assistant on the Chotila Sub Publish Workplace, LSG Postal Assistant on the Surendranagar Head Publish Workplace, and Sub Publish Grasp in Chotil — entered right into a legal conspiracy and allegedly misappropriated funds from varied kind of postal deposit accounts inflicting wrongful loss to the Publish Places of work to the tune of Rs 1.57 crore.
Additional investigation is underway.
