Uttar Pradesh Cooperative Department Commissioner BN Singh has given this information in his letter that a special audit was conducted by Mittal Nirbhay Singh & Company on behalf of the Cooperative Department regarding the scam in Etawah District Cooperative Bank. Whose report came out on October 21. In this report, it has been clarified that there is a scam of Rs 1 billion 2 crore 52 lakh 85 thousand 727 in Etawah District Cooperative Bank. This scam has been done at different levels from 1 April 2016 to 2 September 2023.
In the case of hiding the information about this bank scam even after knowing about it, the then DGM of District Cooperative Bank Etawah Kuldeep Singh, who is currently posted in Jhansi district, and the current DGM Deepak Gupta have been suspended with immediate effect after investigation. Singh said that the case of scam in the main branch of the District Cooperative Bank was registered in the Kotwali police station of Etawah on July 16 this year. In which a scam of Rs 25 crore was mentioned by the investigating officers Rajeev Tripathi and Umesh Yadav.
Case filed against bank employees
In this connection, 10 bank employees including senior branch manager Akhilesh Chaturvedi were named under several serious sections, holding them responsible for the scam. Police registered the case and arrested senior branch manager Atul Pratap Singh and cashier Nafisul Zaidi with immediate effect.
Revealed in special audit
Senior branch manager Akhilesh Chaturvedi, the main accused in the bank scam, was arrested on July 25 from Raj Palace in Rajasthan, India. Apart from this, 13 people including Akhilesh Chaturvedi’s parents, a jeweler and a former head have been arrested and sent to jail. DGM Kuldeep Singh was posted in Etawah District Cooperative Bank for 9 years and 6 months. Kuldeep Singh’s first term was from 2 August 2011 to 28 August 2017, while the second term was from 10 March 2019 to 2 September 2022. Presently Kuldeep Singh was posted as DGM in Jhansi.
The district administration has attached the hotel worth about Rs 10 crore of the main accused in the Rs 25 crore District Cooperative Bank scam in Etawah. After this action of attachment, now no process of buying and selling of this hotel can be done.
