On Tuesday, the SOG group (Special Operation Group) locked in the head cashier of PNB (Punjab National Branch) branch from Gangapur city for having an illegal deal with Gopal Gupta, who is a local trader and have accusation of submitting money in the bank account of his employees and also making regular withdrawals.
SOF officials have clearly mentioned that they have made arrest procedure of Rajendra Meena who helped Gopal Gupta in the deposit of Rs. 18 lakh in five seperate banks accounts including the account of Virendra Pandey, one of his employee.
A senior official at SOG said, “Meena deposited Rs 18 lakh in old currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 in the bank accounts of Gupta’s former slate factory employees. Gupta after demonetization made withdrawals of Rs 24,000 nine times”.
The investigators also revealed that Meena broke very vital RBI guidelines while dealing in these deposits. He mentioned it like, “As per rules, identification cards should be verified before making deposit. Similarly, an authorization letter is required to be signed by the user before depositing cash. These rules were flouted by Meena as he had accepted a commission of 20% from Gupta”.
SOG also mentioned that, “Gupta owned a slate manufacturing company which had closed down three years ago. But, he had opened bank accounts of his employees and made them signed cheque books which he kept with himself”.
The sleuths were not expecting much like a crime web and had started with Virendra’s case but step by step a racket run by Gupta got revealed.
Investigators found out Rs. 1.25 lakh in newer currency from Gupta’s office and house. Officials says, “All currency was in denomination of Rs 2,000. SOG is questioning Gupta and we are in hope to unearth actual figure of undeclared money he had accumulated”.
