By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR: Economic Offences Wing, Odisha, arrested one accused fraudster Pomesh Tembhare aka Pomesh Temtre, S/o Someswar Tembhare of Bangalitola, PS-Kirnapur, Dist-Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh, on 26.04.2024 from a village in Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh, in EOW PS Case No.05 dt.19.04.2024 U/s 419/420/467/468/471/120-B IPC. After arrest, the accd. was produced before the Hon’ble Court of CJM, Balaghat, MP and was brought to Bhubaneswar on the strength of transit remand.
The arrested accused is going to be produced before the Hon’ble Court of PO, Designated Court under OPID Act, Balasore today i.e. on 29.04.2024.
The case was registered by taking over Bhanjapur PS (Mayurbhanj District) case No.95 dt.19.04.2024 which was registered on the written allegation of Sujata Kanungo, Chief Manager, Bank of India, Baripada that illegal transactions of Rs.9,56,76,600/- has been made from the account of District Mineral Foundation Trust of Zilla Parishad, Mayurbhanj maintained with Bank of India, Baripda Branch by producing four cheques on 10.04.2024 and 18.04.2024.
During investigation, it was found that the saving account of Zilla Parishad, Mayurbhanj is being maintained with Bank of India, Baripda Branch in the name of District Mineral Foundation Trust. The fraudsters by producing forged/clone cheques managed to transfer Rs.9,56,76,600/- in total to two different accounts in the name of PT Constructions & Supplier maintained with Bank of Maharashtra and S K Enterprises maintained with Punjab & Sindh Bank.
During investigation, the above mentioned amounts were found further diverted/transferred to many other accounts from the accounts of PT Constructions & Supplier and S K Enterprises. Out of the illegally transferred amount, Rs.5,04,06,900/- was blocked and Rs.13,56,948/- lying in 33 accounts have been frozen.
The arrested accused Pomesh Tembhare was found to be the owner/ signatory authority of PT Constructions & Suppliers to which more than Rs 2.68 Crore was illegally transferred. Out of this amount, the arrested accused. Being the signatory authority has transferred/diverted the amount to many other accounts apart from self-withdrawals.
After the incident, he was hiding himself keeping his mobile phone switch off in Naxal infested village. EOW team with the help of local police and CAPF arrested the accused. His Firm PT Constructions & Suppliers is functioning at Raipur. However the firm is a sham firm and created only for fraud.
This accused is a member of a larger gang having complex network in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha. After this arrest, EOW has got important clues about the entire gang. They are doing these scams since at least 4 years. They have been doing it through well planned and meticulous methods from cheque cloning to multi-layering of money transfers, creation and operations of multiple mule bank accounts, withdrawal of money, information network, local touts etc.
During investigation, many incriminating clues have been arrived at which are under investigation to reach out to the other fraudsters including the boss of this gang. The investigation of the case is on.
