4 bank officials arrested, action by Raipur police
Raipur: 4 officials of Utkarsh Small Finance Bank arrested in mule bank account case for not following bank’s due diligence, KYC norms, receiving money from brokers in lieu of opening bank account, taking incentives from bank.
Total number of accused arrested under Operation Cyber Shield is 72. Inspector General of Police Raipur Range Amresh Mishra had directed the Range Cyber Police Station to prepare a plan to investigate the mule bank account reported in the cyber crime portal and take action against all the accused including account holder/promoter/broker/bank official involved in opening the mule account.
As per the instructions, more than 20 teams were formed and raids were conducted at more than 50 places. While investigating the accused, a total of 68 mule bank account holders/brokers were arrested. On interrogation of the arrested accused and connecting them with technical evidence, 4 bank officials of Utkarsh Small Finance Bank, Civil Line branch, Raipur have been arrested in crime number 44/25 under sections 317(2), 317(4), 317(5), 111, 3(5) BNS for not following the due diligence, KYC norms of the bank, receiving money from brokers in lieu of opening bank account and taking incentives from the bank.
Arrested Bank Officials
1 Shubham Singh Thakur father Arjun Singh age 27 address Mathpara Dudhadhari Mandir Road Ward No. 64 Tikrapara
2 Himanshu Sharma father Shantanu Sharma age 26 years permanent address – Ward No. 10 Police Station Arang
3 Sumit Dixit father Brij Kishore Dixit age 28 address Shankar Nagar Shriram Nagar Phase 2 H.No. A1 Police Station Khamhardih Raipur
4 Anupam Shukla Father Arun Kumar Shukla Age 23 Address – Professor Colony Sector 02 Patel Para Police Station Purani Basti Raipur
