Jammu, Feb 18: Crime Branch has arrested five accused including a J&K Bank Officer and a fake District Horticulture Officer in multi-crore J&K bank loan scam & identified arrested accused as the then J&K Bank Manager (Scale-II) branch Rajouri Jatinder Singh (now demoted) S/o Dharampal Sharma R/o Narwal Bala Jammu, fake District Horticulture Officer Mohd Kabir S/o Mohd Yousuf R/o Fatehpur Poonch, fake Social Mobilizer IWMP Poonch Mohd Zafeer Khan S/o Zahoor Ahmad Khan R/o Narol Mendhar Poonch, fake Horticulture Technician-II in Water Shed RDD Poonch Zafar Iqbal S/o Mohd Younis R/o Ari Mendhar Poonch and fake Horticulture Technician-I in IWMP RDD Poonch Mohd Shakeel S/o Said Mohd R/o Nowshera Rajouri.
This case was registered on the written complaint lodged by Chief Manager S&C Division, Zonal office J&K Bank Jammu Mohd Shakeel wherein he alleged that Saleem Yousuf Bhatti who was contractual employee with IWMP Poonch and others had got activated the inactive accounts of Water Shed Committee at Branch Lassana, Surankote Poonch.
Fraudsters managed to obtain loans amounting to Rs 5.00 Crore approximately from the different branches of J&K Bank thereby causing huge wrongful loss to the bank.
Accused also managed to open fraudulent government accounts at Branch office Mendhar and Branch office Bus stand Mendhar.
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