Lucknow: The 42-year-old bank manager, who fled for two years in the case of embezzlement of Rs 45 Crore, was arrested on Monday.
The defendant, Akhilesh Kumar from the old Colony of Labor, in Bazarafala, has a case that submits it at Krishnanagar Police Station by the Head of the Canara Bank Regional Office (Vipin Khand) Manoj Kumar Meena.
The defendant held a bank manager position at the Alambagh branch office, located in Lda Colony in Krishnanagar, when he committed fraud.
Kumar had hid after his name appeared in a crime and could not be traced since then.
DCP, Central Zone, Aparna Kaushik announced a gift of Rs 25,000 in his arrest but its existence was uncertain.
The defendant bought land, Goodswe had declared him absonce after FIR was submitted against him, “said ACP, Krishnanagar, Pankaj Srivastava.
On Monday, the police team was told about Kumar’s presence in Krishnanagar after that the team swooped and arrested him.
He has a crime and reveals he has invested money in buying land, goods, and other items.
A official who knows the probe said that when Kumar was a branch manager, several people, identified as Manoj Kumar, Raj Duggal, Amit Dubey, and Sanjay Agarwal, had opened an account at branch in 2019.
They then told Kumar what they wanted to get a permanent deposit RS 41 Crore conducted on behalf of the Indian National Highway Authority (NHAI).
Then, four people – Tripathi Satish, Amit Tiwari, manager aka Prakash , and Prabhat Srivastava – Met Kumar and offered him RS1.25 Crore bribery to transfer FD money to their account.
” The defendant was convinced that before FD would ripe, they would return the money, “said a police officer.
However, when the original depositors, who had completed FD, demanded their money at maturity, the defendant reached Satish and Amit.
“The manager gets Rs 25 Crore from them but the original depositors feel a rotten game and tells the higher authority,” the officer added.
The probe was carried out and Kumar was transferred from the branch waiting for a question.
Then, when he was found guilty, he escaped.