Uttar Pradesh Cooperative Department Commissioner BN Singh has given this information in his letter that Mittal Nirbhay Singh & Company conducted a special audit on behalf of the Cooperative Department regarding the scam in Etawah District Cooperative Bank. Whose report came out on October 21. In this report, it has been clarified that there is a scam of Rs 2 billion 52 lakh 85 thousand 727 billion in Etawah District Cooperative Bank. This scam has been carried out at various levels from April 1, 2016 to September 2, 2023.
In the case of hiding the information about this banking scam even after knowing about it, the then Managing Director of Etawah District Cooperative Bank Kuldeep Singh, who is currently posted in Jhansi district, and the current Managing Director Deepak Gupta have been suspended with immediate effect after the investigation. . Singh said the District Cooperative Bank main branch scam case was registered at Etawah police station in Kotwali on July 16 this year. In which investigating officers Rajeev Tripathi and Umesh Yadav mentioned a scam of Rs 25 crore.
Case filed against bank employees
In this regard, 10 employees of the bank, including branch manager Akhilesh Chaturvedi, were identified under various serious sections, holding them responsible for the scam. Police registered the case and arrested branch manager Atul Pratap Singh and cashier Nafisul Zaidi with immediate effect.
Revealed in special audit
Branch manager Akhilesh Chaturvedi, the main accused in the banking scam, was arrested on July 25 from the Raj Palace in Rajasthan, India. Apart from this, 13 people, including the parents of Akhilesh Chaturvedi, a jeweler and a former boss, have been arrested and sent to jail. MDE Kuldeep Singh was posted at Etawah District Cooperative Bank for 9 years and 6 months. Kuldeep Singh's first term was from August 2, 2011 to August 28, 2017, while the second term was from March 10, 2019 to September 2, 2022. Currently, Kuldeep Singh has been posted as MDE in Jhansi.
The district administration has attached the hotel worth around Rs 10 crore of the main accused in the Rs 25 crore District Cooperative Bank scam in Etawah. After this seizure action, no purchase and sale process for this hotel can now be carried out.