GUWAHATI: The CID, Assam has submitted charge sheet in the AMTRON fraud case where an amount of Rs 2,57,07,578 (rupees two crore fifty seven lakh seven thousand five hundred and seventy eight) were allegedly siphoned off from AMTRON’s bank account.
The amount was transferred to a bank account of a business establishment at Salem, Tamil Nadu, and was not connected with AMTRON.
The CID has named Rahul Lochan Huzuri who is working as an assistant working at the finance and accounts department of AMTRON and Shankar Anbalagan, the owner of M/S SRS Raw Material Traders, a Salem-based company for their involvement in the fraud, reads a CID release of Wednesday, February 9.
During investigation, it was revealed that the arrested accused Rahul Lochan Huzuri a contractual employee of AMTRON and sole operator of the official e-mail account of AMTRON had sent an e-mail to Bank of Maharashtra, Guwahati Branch, Panbazar instructing the bank to transfer the amount of Rs 2,57,07,578 to the third party who had no business relation with AMTRON.
The evidence collected from AMTRON office reveals that the accused Rahul Lochan Huzuri was solely in the possession of the of the user-ID and password of the said email account.
Shankar Anbalagan who was in receipt of the money transacted fraudulently was also arrested.
Several other bank accounts which received the fraud amounts due to further transfer of money were identified and accounts have been frozen, says a CID release.
A total of Rs 2,13,89,498 could be recovered from the various banks and the same has been re-credited back into the account of AMTRON maintained at Bank of Maharashtra, Panbazar, Guwahati.
Efforts are on to recover the remaining amount of Rs 38 lakh which has been withdrawn in cash in Tamil Nadu, says CID.