CBI registers graft case against builder, ex-bank officials

The CBI today carried out searches at four locations after registering an FIR against former senior officers of Syndicate Bank and a prominent builder of Jaipur among others for allegedly causing a loss of Rs 209 crore to the bank by way of cheating.
A case of criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery and corruption has been registered against former Assistant General Managers - A K Tiwari, Adarsh Manchanda and former Chief Managers - Deshraj Meena and Santosh Gupta, CBI sources said.
Bharat Bomb, a chartered accountant, his brother-in-law Pavitra Kothari, and Bomb's employees - Vineet Jain and Piyush Jain have also been named in the FIR, they said.

Builder Anoop Bhartiya who has constructed the World Trade Park in Jaipur and Shankar Lal Khandelwal are other accused in the case, they said.
The sources said the CBI is carrying out searches today at Bhartiya's premises in Jaipur and Kothari's residence and office in Ajmer.
"It was alleged in the complaint that the said accused in criminal conspiracy with each other availed home loans and credit facilities from Jaipur and Udaipur branches of Syndicate Bank on the basis of forged and fabricated documents," CBI spokesperson RK Gaur said here.

He said the funds disbursed by Syndicate Bank were diverted and fraudulently siphoned off to the companies owned by the accused, thereby causing an alleged loss of over Rs 209 crore to the bank.

"Searches are being conducted today at four places including Jaipur, Ajmer at the residential and official premises of accused persons," he said.
Bomb who is considered the mastermind of the alleged cheating is facing CBI probe in another case as well and has been in judicial custody since March last year.