News India Live, Digital Desk: A heartbreaking case has come to light from Palghar district of Maharashtra, which has given a deep shock to the trust of bank customers. Here a women’s branch manager of Bank of Baroda has been arrested on charges of embezzlement of more than Rs 5 crore of customer fixed deposits (FD). This incident indicates how some greedy people can misuse reliable positions and rob the hard earned money of common people.
What is the whole matter?
According to police, this shocking fraud is close Was running for 10 yearsThat is, from the year 2012. The accused female manager, whose name Sapna (has not been stated to the full name), took advantage of her position in the bank. He targeted customers, especially the FD (fixed deposit) of senior citizens.
How was the scam done?
Investigations have revealed that Sapna used to prepare customers’ FD receipts, but instead of depositing their money to the bank account, transferred it to the bank accounts of her or her acquaintances. For this, she used fake documents and also signed fake customers.
Why did this do this? Stock market greed!
In the police interrogation, Sapna confessed that she invested all this money in the stock market. She was thinking that she would earn manifold profits in a short time by putting money in the stock market and then returning the money of the customers. But all his money set up in the stock market was sinking, which led to the return of the money of the customers’ FD.
How to open the matter?
This big scam was revealed when some customers tried to withdraw money from the bank when their FD matures. They were told that they did not have FD or there is no money in it. After this, the customers lodged a complaint with the police. The police started investigation and scrutinized the bank’s records, which led to the entire black game.
Police action:
The police have now arrested Sapna and a case has been registered under various sections including fraud, forgery and criminal betrayal. Bank of Baroda has also started an internal investigation into the matter and steps are being taken to compensate for the loss of customers.
This incident is a lesson for all those who have their hard earned money in the bank. It is very important that you keep updating your bank passbook from time to time and verify your FD and other deposits from the bank, so that any such fraud can be avoided.
