Delhi Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a person who had cheated and siphoned off around Rs 50 crores of Nationalised bank in Delhi-NCR.
The accused was wanted in eight cases of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and two cases of Economic Offense Wing (EOW), crime branch Delhi. The accused has been declared proclaimed offender and Non—Bailable Warrants (NBW) were issued against him in six cases of CBI.
“The accused identified as Amit Verma is a resident of GTB Nagar in Delhi. He was declared proclaimed offender in two cases of CBI, two cases of EOW Crime Branch and NBWs against him had been issued in six similar cases, which pertains to financing single properties multiple times,” said Rajiv Ranjan Additional Commissioner of Police (ACP), crime branch.
“The accused was evading arrest for last two years.
We had received information regarding his hideouts in Delhi. A tip off also received helped police to nab the accused at Sharkarpur,” said ACP Ranjan.
“During interrogation disclosed that he along with his associates Nitin Arora, Sandeep Khera, Ishita Arora and Vinod Arora used to prepare forged documents of flats and plots which were already mortgaged with different Banks.
The accused in connivance with his associates took loan from Bank of Maharashtra Sec-27 Noida (UP) and other Banks on the property which was already mortgaged by creating forged documents. later when the gang members didn’t pay the loan installments, and bank officials visited the site in question and discovered that other banks too have pasted their notices mentioning loan and property being mortgaged with their bank,” said Ranjan.
“Some of the banks approached CBI and some of the banks approached EOW. By the time they came to know about the fraud by the gang members. Approximately forty four Crores Rupees has been taken as loan by them, by mortgaging the same property. In this regard CBI has registered 10 cases and EOW Delhi has registered two cases.
The other gang member Nitin Arora is already inside jail with his wife Ishita Arora since last about 2 years.
The leader of the gang Nitin Arora was nabbed by Crime Branch in the year 2015, in two cases of attempt to murder in Delhi and UP of Sanjay Mehta and
Sandep Kheda through contract killers,” said the police officer.