BharatPe fraud case: EOW arrests Ashneer Grover's family member
The HinduDelhi Police Economic Offences Wing has arrested a family member of BharatPe co-founder Ashneer Grover in connection with the alleged misappropriation of funds with the fintech company, police officials said on Friday, September 20, 2024. “Deepak Gupta, who is a brother-in-law of Mr. Grover, was arrested on Friday,” they said. Gupta was named in the FIR which was registered against Mr. Grover, his wife Madhuri Jain and their family member in May 2023 in the ₹81-crore fraud case,” an officer said, adding that Mr. Gupta is being interrogated. BharatPe has accused Mr. Grover and his family of causing losses to the firm to the tune of about ₹81.3 crore through illegitimate payments to bogus human-resource consultants, inflated and undue payments through pass-through vendors connected to the accused, sham transactions in input-tax credit and payment of penalty to Goods and Services Tax authorities, illegal payments to travel agencies, forged invoices and destruction of evidence.