The economic offences wing of the Mumbai police has filed the third chargesheet in the shoe scam against the Metro group and officials of various banks and Maharashtra State Finance Corporation (MSFC). A total of 33 persons have named as accused.
The chargesheet was filed on Thursday in the Esplanade Court of additional chief metropolitan magistrate N B Pokharkar.
The accused named include Rafique Tejani of Metro Shoes and his wife. The others against from Metro Shoes against whom chargesheets have been flied include AM Tejani, Mrs M Z Kerawala and B A Inamdar.
The banks whose officials have been accused are Dena Bank, Bank of Oman International, Bank of Bahrain & Kuwait, Saraswat Cooperative Bank.
The officials from MSFC who have been accused are V M Gadre, N H Manjrekar, J I Dalvi, G A Shaikh, Farookh Mistry, K N Adhiya and R K Mittal.
The officials of Citibank who have been named are Mrs Lekha Bharmane, Subratto Som, Navendu Vyas, R Venkatanathan, Koshi Chandy, Mahim Mehra and P V Bhargava. The accused from Bank of Oman International are V V Chandy, Arshad Wahedna, and B B Trivedi.
The accused from Bank of Bahrain & Kuwait are S N Gokhale, P S Iyer and M G Ramkrishna.
The cobbler scam as the case came to be popularly known hit the headlines as it involved the big names like S H Daya, ex-sheriff of Mumbai and owner of Dawood Shoes. The others allegedly involved in the scam are Kishor Signapurkar of Milano Shoes and Abu Asim of City Walk Shoes.
Day and his associates allegedly fraudulently formed several leather cooperative societies and used them for securing loans for cobblers and other weaker sections of society.
