The agency has named IAS officers– Mohd. Shayin, Saket Kumar, Pardeep Kumar, Vineet Garg, Ram Kumar Singh and Pankaj Agarwal– in its third chargesheet filed before a special court in Panchkula in connection with the case, the officials said.
In its chargesheet, the CBI has also named IDFC First Bank officials Shamim Ahmed Dar, Sudha Goyal, Kuldeep Singh, and AU Small Finance Bank’s Charanjeet Singh Randhawa.
It has also named other Haryana government officials as accused including Deepti Kaushik, Rajesh Goyal, Prince Sharma, Saurav Kumar, Parveen Kumar, Surender Jain, Surinder Kaur, Amit Kumar and Jugal Kishor.
The CBI has invoked charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating, destruction of evidence, forgery, using false documents as genuine, falsification of accounts, criminal breach of trust and abetment under BNS, and offences of bribery and criminal misconduct under Prevention of Corruption Act, agency spokesperson Beena Yadav said in a statement.
“Investigation established that the accused public servants, in connivance with the accused bankers of IDFC First Bank and AU Small Finance Bank, orchestrated and executed the fraudulent scheme in a planned sequence,” the spokesperson said.
It said the funds of eight Haryana government departments from various empanelled banks were transferred into specific branches of IDFC First Bank and AU Small Finance Bank, where the accused bank officers are working, as part of the conspiracy by opening the bank accounts in these bank branches.
“In this process the guidelines of the Finance Department, Haryana government, on financial prudence and fraud prevention, were violated. The funds from these accounts were misappropriated through fraudulent means and transferred to third parties who were not connected with government department,” the agency said.
The CBI alleged that the amounts so transferred were layered through multiple bank accounts and converted into cash, and the accused wrongfully enriched themselves.
“Eight departments and organisations of the state government– Department of Panchayat, Municipal Corporations of Panchkula and Kalka, Haryana School Shiksha Pariyojna Parishad, Haryana Labour Welfare Board, Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board, Haryana State Pollution Control Board, and Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited– were affected by this scam,” the CBI said.
The total quantum of the fraud is Rs 504 crore, it said.
The CBI has already chargesheeted 18 other accused persons in this case, which included officials from the two banks, public servants of the state government, private individuals and private companies.
“With the filing of the present chargesheet, the total number of persons chargesheeted so far in this case is now 37. CBI has conducted 54 searches and seized incriminating evidences including gold worth approx. Rs 20 crore in this case and arrested 26 accused so far,” the spokesperson said.
The CBI said it has also taken over two other related cases pertaining to Chandigarh Smart City Limited (CSCL) and Municipal Corporation Chandigarh, and the other relating to Chandigarh Renewable Energy and Science & Technology Promotion Society (CREST).
“Chargesheets have already been filed in both these cases. All three cases would remain under further investigation against other suspects/accused,” it said.
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