Delhi Police seeks CCTV footage, info on 2 accounts from Axis Bank

Noida: The police has sought transaction details of two accounts and CCTV footage from Axis Bank branch here in connection with a raid carried out at the bank branch by the Income Tax (IT) department which had unearthed Rs 60 crore from the accounts of 20 shell companies.

Police has sought the details after an FIR was lodged on the complaint of Delhi resident, Nandu Paswan, who claimed that someone opened a current account in the name of a company in which he was named the proprietor along with a saving account in his name. He had lodged the complaint after the I-T department detected the fake accounts and interrogated him.

“Paswan claimed that someone with an intention to commit fraud had opened a current account in the name of Himani International showing him as proprietor and a saving account in his name,” inspector Bijendra Bhadana said.

“Bank management has promised to provide CCTV footage and the complete transaction details of the account on Monday. Account opening documents and signature verifications by writing experts and CCTV footage of deposit of cash and other transactions will reveal the truth,” he said.

The I-T department on December 15 unearthed Rs 60 crore from the accounts of 20 shell companies in a raid at the Axis bank branch here. The Enforcement Department is conducting the probe at Axis Bank.

After the demonetisation, Axis Bank had suspended its 19 officials who were allegedly involved in illegal activities in money exchange. The bank suspended 19 officials including 6 from the Kashmere Gate branch of Delhi itself.

Earlier last week, the ED had arrested two Axis Bank managers in New Delhi and seized 3-kg gold bars in connection with its money laundering probe in a racket of illegally converting old notes in connivance with the bank authorities.

The case was first detected by the Delhi Police after it intercepted three people with cash of about Rs 3.7 crore in old currency notes in front of the Kashmere gate branch of Axis Bank in November.

The ED took cognisance of the police FIR to slap money laundering charges against the accused.