DELHI POLICE EAST DISTRICT ARRESTED EMPLOYEES OF NBFC FOR SANCTIONING FRAUDULENT LOANS
New Delhi, March 18
The Delhi Police East District arrested two employees of NBFC and five others for sanctioning loans against gold on alleged fake documents.
The accused were identified as Sanjay Prajapati (36), Nishant Bhole (29) lf Ghaziabad, Jitender Verma (42) of Tri Nagar, Sandeep Kumar (46) of Sultanpuri and Mukesh Kumar (35) of Buradi.
As per the case details, Preet Vihar police station received a call on March 16 from an NBFC namely Ayan Finserve India Pvt. Ltd situated at Nirman Vihar im Delhi. On reaching the spot, one partner in the company namely Anand Pathak stated that his company is involved in providing loan against gold. One Sanjay Prajapati was the manager and Nishant Bhole was working as gold appraiser in the company. He further stated that Sanjay Prajapti was not attending the office since 06.03.2021 which raised doubt in his mind. Therefore, he got audited two loans recommended by him and found that the gold kept as security was found fake. He apprehended that Sanjay Prajapati along with Jitender Verma (Broker) and Nishant Bhole in connivance with each other duped the company by recommending the loans against fake/dummy gold jewelry.
The police register a case of cheating and fraud and took up investigations.
The police stated that during investigation, the team interrogated Nishant Bhole who was present in the office who initially denied the allegations. However, on sustained interrogation, he accepted his involvement in the crime and disclosed that Naresh Prajapati was also involved in the crime. The police then conducted raids and Sanjay Prajapti was apprehended from Pulbangas Metro Station. Subsequently three more associates namely Jitender Verma, Sandeep and Mukesh were also apprehended from separate places.
The police added that during the interrogation, accused disclosed that Mukesh used to bring fake customers; Sandeep and Jitender used arrange fake gold jewellery. Nishant who was working as appraiser used to certify its authenticity and forward the same to Sanjay Prajapati who used to recommend and forward for sanction of loan. When the loan amount get disbursed, Sanjay used to take 22%, Nishant used to take takes 3% and others used to take 5% as commission.
The police seized ash Rs 7 lakh from Nishant Bhole, cash Rs two lakhs from Sanjay Naresh Prajapati, cash of Rs 1.5 lakh from Sandeep, four gold bangles from accused Mukesh. The police also seized fake ID/ fake loan application forms from accused Sandeep and Mukesh and property papers from Sanjay Prajapati
The police added that Sanjay used to work as branch manager. He had also worked at Muthoot Finance for nine years where he had done similar frauds and was got dismissed from the job. Nishant was working as gold appraiser in the company. Jitendra was allegedly involved in six cases of cheating and assault while Sandeep Kumar was previously involved in three cases of cheating and assault.
The police are further investing the case to ascertain involvement of other accused.
