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Jalandhar: The Jalandhar Enforcement Directorate (ED) of Punjab has seized movable and immovable assets worth Rs 42 lakh of former Deputy Postmaster (Dakhni Gate Nakodar Sub Office) Sanjeev Kumar. This information has been shared by Jalandhar ED.
Enforcement Directorate Jalandhar said that investigation was going on against Sanjeev Kumar in a case of financial fraud. This action was taken against Sanjeev under PMLA 2002.
The court had imposed a fine of Rs 15 lakh on Sanjeev
According to the information received, the former sub-postmaster accused of embezzlement of Rs 8.50 crore has been sentenced to five years by the Mohali Court of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Along with this, a fine of Rs 15.40 lakh has also been imposed on Jalandhar resident Sanjeev Kumar.
Sanjeev is accused of committing forgery and misappropriation of government funds by misusing his official position as sub-postmaster during his posting in Nakodar and Rurka Kalan between 2014 and 2017. The case was registered on the complaint of Kapurthala Post Office Superintendent Dilbagh Singh Suri.
According to CBI documents, the accused had siphoned off money through 54 fake accounts. In January 2018, the CBI registered a case against the accused under sections 120-B, 409, 420, 467, 468, 471, 477-A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Prevention of Corruption Act.
According to the CBI, the accused used to operate these accounts and withdraw money through various transactions. Investigation revealed that the accused used to inflate the value of recurring deposit (RD) accounts by adding zeros to them. They also made withdrawals from accounts with inflated value of RD accounts by maturity/premature closure.
