The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has charged a bank officer and his accomplice for allegedly embezzling more than Rs 55 crore from various accounts. The accused, Bedanshu Shekhar Mishra and Shailesh Kumar Jaiswal, were reportedly lured by their appetite for online gaming and used forgery to channel funds from Punjab & Sind Bank into virtual betting tables. Mishra, who was posted at the North Campus branch of the bank at Khalsa College of Delhi University, admitted to using colleagues’ banking IDs to make illegal transfers for online gaming purposes.
During the CBI’s investigation, it was found that Mishra illegally encashed 32 fixed deposits belonging to Khalsa College, amounting to Rs 48.76 crore, and siphoned Rs 6.74 crore from various Mudra Loan accounts. The agency alleges that Mishra used official IDs allotted to the officer of Khalsa College Branch to transfer the funds into 29 different bank accounts, without supporting vouchers in the bank’s records.
Investigations showed that Mishra had a penchant for online games such as Monopoly and CrazyTimes offered on the website “Goa247.Live,” registered in Curacao and managed in India by individuals based in Dubai. Between May 12 and September 14 in 2022, Mishra regularly played online games and transferred the liquidated amount of the said FDR, amounting to Rs 10.81 crore, into four accounts provided by the gaming website. The CBI discovered that Dubai-based individuals Rajat Muralidhar, Nishanth, Rahul Kumar, A Rajath, and Nishanth were managing the website in India.
