Guwahati: Ex-manager of Central Bank of India arrested

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: The Bureau of Investigation (Economic Offences) (BIEO) on Monday arrested a retired Branch Manager of the Central Bank of India, one Pradip Kumar Das, on the charge of helping a customer to embezzle an amount of Rs 10, 55,000.

According to BIEO sources, Das has been arrested on the basis of an FIR lodged by the Regional Manager of the Central Bank of India on June 23, 2021.

According to the FIR, two term loans were sanctioned amounting Rs 7, 25,000 and Rs 3,30,000 in the name of one Abdul Munnaf, but he failed to return the loan. During investigation, it came to light that Abdul Munnaf had expired in 2006 and it was his son Abdul Samir who, by submitting forged documents and posing as his deceased father, had fraudulently obtained the term loans amounting Rs 10.55 lakh from the Dikom Branch of the Central Bank of India. Abdul Samir was arrested in the case on August 26 last and forwarded to jail custody, the sources said.

Further investigation revealed that the then Branch Manager of the Dikom Branch of the bank, Pradip Kumar Das, had conspired with Abdul Samir and deliberately omitted to check/verify the documents submitted by the latter, including forged PAN, KYC as well as without obtaining the photograph of the borrower, which are mandatory provisions to be followed by banks before sanctioning a loan.

Pradip Kumar Das was produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kamrup (M) and the court remanded him to 14 days' judicial custody.

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