ACB carries out raids at 17 places including Mangaluru: Homes, offices of 5 officers inspected
Bengaluru, Dec 28: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), on Friday morning, conducted raids at 17 places in the state, including Mangaluru. The sleuths inspected property documents at the houses and offices of five officials accused of corruption.
The ACB conducted the raids at Bengaluru, Chintamani, Mysuru, Hunasuru, Udupi, Davangere, Chikkamagaluru, Mangaluru and Karwar.
The raids were carried out on Mangaluru's Reader of Government College of Teacher Education D. Manjunath, Davanagere's Deputy Director of Department of Agriculture Hansveni, Bengaluru's Additional Controller of Co-operative Societies R. Shridhar, Bengaluru's Assistant Director of Urban Planning Beesetappa, and Mysuru MUDA's Junior Engineer K. Mani.
The ACB, who gathered the authentic information that these officials are possessing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income, have filed a disproportinate assets case against them. In addition to this, the ACB sleuths began searching in 17 locations related to them.
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3 officials of private banks arrested in Gujarat in Rs 2,500 crore cyber fraud; 20 held so far
Rajkot (PTI): Three officials of leading private banks were arrested for their alleged involvement in a Rs 2,500-crore cyber fraud racket in Gujarat's Rajkot district, bringing the number of those held so far in the case to 20, police said on Monday.
Those arrested were identified as Maulik Kamani, a personal manager at Yes Bank in Padadhari; Kalpesh Dangariya, a manager at Axis Bank in Jamnagar; and Anurag Baldha, a personal banker with HDFC Bank, Rajkot (Rural) Superintendent of Police Vijay Gurjar said.
Dangariya and Baldha were previously employed with Yes Bank, he added.
Kamani allegedly assisted the earlier arrested accused in opening and managing suspicious accounts. He also helped bypass banking alerts triggered by high-value transactions by submitting additional documentation to keep accounts active, the SP said.
Kamani was allegedly involved in cash withdrawals that were later routed through hawala channels (illegal money transfer system), supported by digital evidence recovered from his mobile device, he added.
Dangariya is accused of facilitating the opening of fraudulent accounts using fake or misrepresented identities, police said.
He also assisted in structuring documentation, including Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC)-related papers, to prevent transactions from being flagged as suspicious, they said.
On the other hand, Baldha opened new accounts after verification and certification processes as part of the racket, Gurjar informed.
All the three accused are in police custody, while others are in jail under judicial remand, SP said.
So far, police have identified 85 bank accounts linked to the racket with 535 complaints filed on the cyber crime portal.
The total transaction linked to the cyber fraud exceeds Rs 2,500 crore, police said.
The earlier fraud amount was pegged by police at Rs 1,500 crore.
