ED arrests former Pune ZP chairman in ₹494cr bank fraud case
Hindustan TimesMUMBAI: Former chairman of Pune zilla parishad Mangaldas Bandal has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with an alleged ₹494-crore fraud at Pune’s Shivajirao Bhosale Sahakari Bank. Earlier on Tuesday, the ED seized cash worth ₹25 lakh and froze fixed deposits worth ₹50 lakh during searches conducted at Bandal’s premises. ED’s investigation revealed that several persons had committed the fraud through a range of irregularities, including siphoning off cash from the bank without any official entry/ record in the core banking system and transferring funds to their own or related parties’ accounts. “Key managerial persons of the bank treated the bank and its funds as their family concern and utilised the siphoned funds for their personal gains.” The ED had during searches conducted in February last year provisionally attached 23 properties worth ₹26.60 crore belonging to persons under the scanner in the case including Anil Bhosale, Suryaji Jadhav, Nusrat Mujawar and Anil Bhosale.