Kolkata: Money trails have been found by the Kolkata Police investigation team in connection with Debanjan Deb, the man impersonating as an ...
Kolkata: Money trails have been found by the Kolkata Police investigation team in connection with Debanjan Deb, the man impersonating as an IAS officer arrested three days back.
“During
interrogation Deb revealed that he had formed a finance company called Fincore which
is under Kasba Police Station area. We will verify this information,” Joint
Commissioner of Police Murlidhar Sharma said.
Police said it
has received complaints from two specific people that Deb has reportedly taken
Rs10 lakh from a person in Behala while another person has filed a complaint
about transferring Rs 30 lakhs to his account.
Police sources said
that they have traced three accounts - first account in his own name, the second
one which is a current account in ICICI Bank in his own name and the third in
KMC’s name in ICICI Bank, which is a fake account.
“A person told us
that Deb had asked for Rs 90 lakh from him. The man has transferred Rs 30 lakh
to his account. He used the money from all these sources in several KMC
sub-contracts he was receiving. He was also maintaining a false image of a
social worker,” Sharma confirmed.
Kolkata Municipal
Corporation will take legal action against ICICI Bank where Deb had opened a
bank account as the joint commissioner of KMC. A close aide of Deb, Shantanu
Manna was arrested on Friday.
“KMC bank accounts
cannot be opened by anyone except the Chief Financial Commissioner. How
can an imposter open an account in the bank? We are going to take legal action against
them,” KMC Deputy Mayor Atin Ghosh said on Friday.
Two other cases
have been lodged in the New Market Police Station. Deb had forged the signature
of an officer. In the second case, he had forged a signature and opened a
current account in the name of KMC. “He had taken Rs 36 lakh which was
transferred to the forged KMC account,” Sharma said.
The first complaint
with regard to the fake vaccination racket was received on June 22 by Kasba
Police Station, who then sent a sergeant and found a KMC banner. Then a sub-inspector
went and found irregularities and gave feedback about the incident. Kasba PS
then filed a suo moto complaint, police said.
“We have seized
many documents along with writing pad with the KMC and Nabanna logo. We
will do a technical analysis of his cell phone and computers to see if other
people were involved,” Sharma added.
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