Pune: Deputy Manager Of Bank Of Maharashtra Misuses Position To Siphon Off Rs 2 Crore Through CSR Activities
Pune, 14th November 2022: For the money, the Deputy Manager of Bank of Maharashtra misused his position and tried to give cash of Rs two crores to a company with the help of his associates. Reportedly, the trio decided to get more donations from the concerned companies and divide them in favour of the charitable organization. In this case, Unit 4 of the Crime Branch of Pune city police has arrested three persons and seized Rs two crores.
The names of those arrested are Amol Gorakhnath Kanchar (45), a resident of Aurangabad, Santosh Vaijnath Mahajan (43), a resident of Nashik and Sushil Suresh Rawle (34), a resident of Manchar, Ambegaon.
Ganesh Mane, a senior police inspector of Unit 4, received the information that fake money was being transported in a vehicle. The team laid a trap and chased the vehicle and intercepted it at the Wellesley Road area in Camp.
When the vehicle was searched, two crores rupees in denomination of Rs 500 and Rs 2000 currency notes were found in it. In this case, the team detained the three and conducted an investigation.
Sushil Rawle is working as Deputy Manager at Bank of Maharashtra’s Manchar Currency Chest, Ambegaon. He misused his position and took unauthorised possession of Rs two crores from the Manchar currency chest. The concerned cash was to be given to a private company and a large amount of CSR was to be received from them by RTGS in the account of the accused Amol’s ‘Kanchar Foundation Charitable Trust’.
They all were to share some of the excess amount received in the form of donations among themselves. Accused Amol was going to construct the building of the educational institution from the remaining amount.
As the accused Santosh Mahajan was helping in the best possible way, he was also going to get the contract for the construction of the educational institution and the money from the donation. The amount of Rs two crores received from the donation was to be credited by RTGS at the Manchar branch of the Bank of Maharashtra. However, the Crime Branch busted the racket and seized the cash.
The operation was carried out under the supervision of Police Commissioner Amitabh Gupta, Joint Commissioner Sandeep Karnik, Additional Commissioner Ramnath Pokle, Deputy Commissioner Srinivas Ghadge, ACP Narayan Shirgaonkar. The team included Police Inspector Ganesh Mane, API Vikas Jadhav, Sub Inspector Jaideep Patil, and Mahendra Pawar, Harish More, Sanjay Adhari, Pravin Bhalchim, Vitthal Vawhal, Ajay Gaikwad, Nagesh Singh Kunwar, Vinod Mahajan, Swapnil Kamble, Saras Salvi, Ashok Shelar, Ramesh Rathod, Manoj Sangle, Vaishali Makdi, and Shital Shinde.
