Late Tuesday night, 5 people including mastermind Ribhav Rishi have been arrested in the IDFC First Bank scam case of Haryana. Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) has succeeded in arresting the five accused after late night raid. ACB has not yet disclosed how many of these are IDFC Bank employees and how many are outsiders.
Police investigation revealed that mastermind Ribhav Rishi had previously been the manager of IDFC First Bank. Presently he was posted as manager in AU Small Bank of Zirakpur, Punjab, near Chandigarh. It was Ribhav Rishi who had conspired to embezzle government money by creating fake companies. Ribhav himself, along with his associates, had withdrawn Rs 590 crore from the accounts of the government departments of Haryana. The arrested accused include mastermind Ribhav Rishi, Abhishek Singla, Abhay, Swati and another.
CM claims- recovered the entire amount including interest
Meanwhile, amid the ongoing uproar over this fraud, on Tuesday, CM Nayab Saini informed in the Assembly that the entire amount including interest has been recovered from IDFC First Bank. According to ACB sources, the role of some officers is under suspicion. The question is why were some IAS officers showing interest in opening accounts in Chandigarh banks despite the headquarters being in Panchkula? Did these officers get any direct benefit?
I came to know last year only
There has been a shocking revelation in this fraud. The government became aware of this disturbance in July last year itself. Regarding this, the Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) of the Finance Department wrote a letter to all the departments and alerted them. The surprising thing is that despite having their headquarters in Panchkula, accounts of 18 government departments were opened in banks of Chandigarh. Now the government has set up a high level inquiry into the empanelment of IDFC First Bank and AU Small Finance.