The Central Investigation Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a senior airport Authority (AAI) officer of India for the value of public funds. Officials said on Saturday that in four years, Rs 232 crore from Dehradun Airport, manipulating the official and electronic records.
According to officials, the accused, Rahul Vijay, was posted as a senior manager (finance and accounts) at Dehradun Airport between 2019 and 2023, and is currently serving the same capacity at Jaipur Airport.
On August 26, on August 23, an FIR was filed against Vijay after a complaint by Senior Manager (Finance) Chandrakant P at AAI with CBI, Vijay was accused of misusing his position as an authorized signator in the airport’s bank account, and removed the money in his personal account under the guise of asset construction.
According to the CBI and AAI investigation, Vijay made fictional property and inflated figures to mask the transfer. Investigators found that they added additional zero to the entries to get out of regular checks.
In one such example, in September 2021, he moved 189 crores in your personal account by recording 67.81 crore as expenditure for electrical works in new terminal building 189 crores, this couple.
The CBI said that the accused are engaged in “a systematic plan of fraud”, creating duplicate records, manipulating data, and converting public money into their individual accounts. An initial analysis of bank transactions has shown that the later siphoned funds were transferred to trading accounts.
On August 28, the discoveries of Vijay’s residence and office in Jaipur inspired to reduce the documents.
of 232 crore alleged embezzlement, about A CBI official private said that during Vijay’s tenure in Dehradun, 43 crore were distributed under separate revenue expenses under the heads of separate revenue expenses.
On the basis of investigation, the CBI booked Vijay under the provisions of unidentified public servants, under IPC classes for criminal conspiracy, violation of trust, forgery, misconception of accounts and prevention of corruption Act.
The CBI said on Saturday, “The accused has been arrested. Further investigation is going on.”
