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DK Suresh blows whistle on CBI raid

The demonetized cash that was exchanged in the Ramanagara branch of Corporation Bank was allegedly remitted by Padmanabhaiah,official said.

Bengaluru: There is trouble brewing for the Congress MLA and former energy minister D.K. Shivakumar and his brother D.K. Suresh after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday raided five places in Bengaluru, Ramanagara and Kanakapura including the premises of Shivakumar’s former aide Padmanabhaiah and B. Prakash - the then chief manager of Corporation Bank, Ramanagaram branch in an April, 2017 case of alleged exchange of demonetized cash of Rs 10 lakh with fresh currency through fraudulent means.

According to the FIR (RC10 (A) 2017), which was registered by the Anti Corruption Branch of the CBI, Bengaluru branch on April 7, 2017 against Prakash and some unknown others under Section 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document) and Prevention of Corruption Act, Prakash in connivance with two other bank officials had allegedly exchanged Rs 10 lakh cash in demonetized currency with new notes and had produced a bundle of 250 fraudulent requisition slips to cover up the illegal act.

“The demonetized cash that was exchanged in the Ramanagara branch of Corporation Bank was allegedly remitted by Padmanabhaiah, who had produced 120 copies of voter IDs without the knowledge of the people, whose IDs were being misused. The IDs were fraudulently printed on November 10 and 11, 2016 by misusing the hologram and login ID of the tehsildar and facsimile stamp of the election returning officer (ERO) of the election cell,” stated an official source.

On Wednesday the CBI obtained the details and duplicate copies of the 120 voter IDs that were used for the fraudulent activity from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Karnataka following which, on Thursday the agency conducted searches at the premises of Padmanabhaiah, election cell, Kanakapura, another office at Ramanagaram, the residences of the former election cell in-charge Shivananda and former election cell clerk Nanjappa,” said an official source.

The agency has reportedly seized incriminating documents, images of hard disks and holograms that were allegedly used in printing the fraudulent voter IDs, he added.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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