Of late, though the Odisha police have formed an Economic Offences Wing (EOW), various economic offences are spiralling in the State and affecting a large number of people.
Concerned over the matter, the Crime Branch has asked all police stations to treat economic offences above Rs 20 lakh as ‘Special Report’ cases and to be supervised by senior officers. Notably, police in 2018 registered 28 cases and put 105 persons behind bars, who were involved in various financial crimes.In this scenario, another high-profile financial crime has come to light in the city.
Three persons have been arrested and are in judicial custody for forging the signature of the Bhubaneswar-based Jagannath Superstructures Private Limited managing director Nanda Kishore Behera and swindling Rs 18 crore from his various bank accounts. Later, Behera approached the Nayapalli police through the Bhubaneswar SDJM Court and lodged an FIR. Following which two persons were arrested. Two of the arrestees were identified as main accused Prabhas Chandra Mishra of Brahmapur and Rudra Dash of Athagarh. However, one Loknath Suryanaryan Mishra and Prateek Kar are still at large.
Police said Nandakishore four aforesaid associates took his digital signatures and prepared forged documents claiming to be his partners and withdrew the money from hi accounts in several banks.
The police had taken the duo on one-day remand to extract more information about the fraud. Though the accused had filed a bail plea, the Bhubaneswar SDJM II rejected their petition and again sent them to judicial custody on Monday.