Bhubaneswar, July 25 : Economic Offences Wing, Bhubaneswar, has arrested Chartered Accountant Neeraj Kumar, an accused for availing cash credit loan from Punjab National
Bank using fake and forged documents.
The Charted Account had mortgaged the landed properties as collateral security that stood
recorded in the names of someone else without the knowledge of the land owners in
connivance with the bank officials.
EOW sources here on Monday said the Chartered Accountant , a resident of Bindapur, Uttam
Nagar, New Delhi was arrested on July 23 from Delhi and produced before the Court of
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dwarka, New Delhi and was brought on transit remand to Bhubaneswar to be produced before the SDJM Court here.
He has been arrested on the basis of a complaint registered by Paresh Kumar Das, Circle Head, Punjab National Bank, Bhubaneswar against accused Kali Prasad Mishra, Proprietor of M/s K.P. Solutions and others on the allegation that the accused person availed Cash Credit (CC) loan for working capital to the tune of Rs.250 lakh from Punjab National Bank, Bapuji Nagar Branch, Bhubaneswar using fake/forged documents.
Investigation also revealed that Neeraj Kumar, a qualified Chartered Accountant was working in Punjab National Bank during the year 2013 to 2016 as Manager, Credit, in Saheed Nagar Branch Bhubaneswar along with accused Birendra Kumar Pattanaik who was also working as Chief
Manager in the same branch.
Neeraj Kumar who resigned from PNB during 2016 used to sit in PNB, Bapuji Nagar Branch posing as a Bank official in which accused Birendra Kumar Pattanaik was the Chief Manager and was actively engaged in facilitating and arranging loans to the tune of crores from PNB, Bapuji Nagar Branch.
EOW sources said on the day of sanction of loan and subsequent to it, lakhs of rupees have been diverted/transferred from M/s K. P Solutions, Prop- Kali Prasad Mishra to the bank accounts of M/s Neeraj Kumar & Associates, Prop- Neeraj and to others .
Earlier, accused persons namely Kali Prasad Mishra, Prop of M/s K P Solutions, Srikant Prasad Prusty, the then Sr. Manager, Credit, PNB Bapuji Nagar, Birendra Kumar Pattnaik,the then Chief Manager , Narendra Nayak, the then Manager , both of Bapuji Nagar Branch, PNB, Bhubaneswar and Prakash Kumar Behera MD/Directors of M/s Ubique Multitech Private Limited, M/s Aziel
Trading And Marketing Pvt Ltd have been arrested in this case.
The accused persons,EOW sources said have also adopted similar modus operandi in sanctioning loan of Rs.3.5 Crores in favour of one M/s Lingaraj Enterprises against mortgage of residential duplexes of the complainant – Prasant Kumar Mohaptra without his knowledge.
The said property documents were actually deposited by the complainant in the bank for availing a loan of Rs. 10 lakhs for him.
The bank officials of Punjab National Bank, Bapuji Nagar Branch in criminal conspiracy with the middle men Neeraj kumar, Prakash Behera and the partners of M/s Lingaraj Enterprises, had extended business loan to the tune of Rs. 3.5 crores in favour of one M/s Lingaraj Enterprises
basing on the forged/ false documents.
