Monday, May 26, 2008

Police seek details in Rs 8.5 lakh fraud - The Navhind Times - 26 May 2008

PANJI, The police today sent letters to the HDFC bank office asking for details about the bank accounts of the people involved in the defrauding of the State Bank of India to the tune of Rs 8,50,000.

A complaint had been filed by the assistant general manager of the SBI alleging that three people had defrauded the bank. The police say that the accused went to the HDFC branches in Margao, Mapusa and Caranzalem and deposited SBI mutual fund payment warrants. After the bank cleared and honoured the warrants the accused allegedly withdrew the money through ATMs and absconded with the same.

The HDFC bank then sent the warrants to the local SBI branch, in turn forwarded the warrants in question to the Mumbai SBI, which informed the banks that the warrants were fake.

According to the town police inspector, Mr Francis Corte, the accused, namely Prakash Chatoi, Bhavesh Jain and Bappi Nayak, carried out 17 transactions in all from April 2 to April 16.

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