Uttar Pradesh : 40 lakhs loan was made from fake gold, UCO Bank was duped like this
UCO Bank had appointed Ramveer Purohit, owner of Shubham Jewelers, as a valuer to give the gold loan. Ramveer Purohit was responsible for preparing the report on mortgage of gold. Who prepared a report of fake gold being real with the help of friends and made a loan of about 40 lakh rupees by putting it in the bank. Installments were not deposited on time. Due to which there was manipulation of about 40 lakh rupees including interest.
On August 6, on the complaint of teacher Surendra, the Banthra police arrested Ramveer Purohit along with two of his associates. After which the investigation was done by the bank. The fraud came to light when the gold was tested by the new valuer. On behalf of Saurabh Pandey, Chief Manager of UCO Bank, cases have been registered against Ramveer Purohit and his associates at Ashiana and Sarojininagar Kotwali.
Fake report was submitted in three branches
According to Saurabh Pandey, Chief Manager of UCO Bank, Ramveer Purohit had prepared and submitted the report of gold pledged in Aurangabad, Sarojininagar Chandrawal and Sarojininagar Behsa branches. In which loans of about 40 lakhs were passed on the basis. Most of them did not get the money back. According to Saurabh, seven loans were passed on the report of the accused in the branch located at Ashiana Aurangabad. Out of which, the matter of release of loan of 24 lakhs came to the fore through false reports. At the same time, the jewelery mortgaged of six people in Chandrawal branch was investigated by valuer Jugal Kishore Rastogi. Fake jewelery was found in two packets. On which a loan of about 12 lakhs was given. At the same time, irregularities came to the fore in two of the seven loans passed on the report of Ramveer in the branch located at Sarojininagar Behsa. A loan of about Rs 4 lakh was taken from the Behsa branch by treating the fake jewelery as genuine.
Ramveer Purohit, the operator of Shubham Jewellers, first got a loan against fake jewelery by submitting a fake report in the UCO Bank Charbagh branch. After the arrest, the accused had given many important information to the Banthra police. After which the bank also got the gold loan audited along with getting the new valuer Jugal Kishore Rastogi investigated. Two cases have been filed on behalf of Saurabh Pandey in Ashiana Kotwali. In which along with Ramveer Purohit, Anupama Srivastava resident of Sardarikheda Alambagh, Shailendra Kumar resident of Ashiana LDA Colony, Virendra Jaiswal resident of Banthra Bazar and Vijay Saini, resident of Banthra Sikandarpur have also been made accused. According to ADCP Central Rajesh Srivastava, Ramveer Purohit is already in jail along with fellow Raghavendra Srivastava and Umesh Yadav. In such a situation, the search is on for the remaining named accused.
