Mumbai Police payroll fraud: ₹6.41 crore disbursed to 10 'ghost' employees, 5 booked
The unauthorised salary transactions were primarily carried out during two periods - December 2019 to February 2020 and June to September 2020, a news agency report said.
The Mumbai Police have uncovered a payroll fraud case involving the disbursement of ₹6.41 crore to 10 ghost employees between 2019 and 2020. The fraud was detected during the transfer of payroll records, which revealed that non-police personnel were listed as employees in the North Regional Division and received monthly salaries in bank accounts opened in their names.
Five officials, including former administrative officers Ramkishan Goswami, Nagesh Talvadekar, and Vijaya Chavan, have been booked under various provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for cheating, forgery, criminal breach of trust, and criminal conspiracy. Chavan and Meshram, Head Clerk Ajay Rathod, and Senior Clerk Amol Meshram have been suspended from duty.
Police are currently investigating the identities of the 10 purported employees and attempting to establish who operated the bank accounts into which the salaries were credited.
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