Bengaluru, Mar 29: Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs 10.20 crores in a fraud case involving ICICI Bank employee Vijayasarathi in the ICICI Bank, Vijayapura branch, Karnataka.
Investigation under Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) was initiated on the basis of FIRs and subsequent charge sheet filed by CID, Karnataka, according to a release here on Friday.
In the charge-sheet it was alleged in the charge sheet that Vijayasarathi, Sachin Annappa Patil and other employees of the ICICI Bank, Vijayapura indulged in the crime by using the cancelled cheques, unused cheques, through fraudulent transfers, issuing fake Fixed Deposit receipts, not crediting the cash which was receipt for credit in the Bank accounts of ICICI Bank, BDCC Bank, Siddeshwara Co-operative Bank, etc and siphoned off/misappropriated amount to the tune of Rs 70.44 crores. Thus, wrongful loss to the tune of Rs 70.44 crores was caused to the ICICI Bank. The fraud could not be detected by the Risk Control Unit of the ICICI Bank.
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