The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police has arrested a man for allegedly opening seven bank accounts with forged documents and routing black income to the tune of Rs 9 crore by means of them. The accused has been identified as Gaurav Singhal, a resident of Shahdara, they stated.
According to the EOW, on December 24, the accused was arrested just after the Income Tax Officer Rajesh Kumar Gupta alleged that a significant quantity of money was deposited in unique bank accounts through the period from November 9, 2016, to December 30, 2016.
On inquiry from concerned banks, it emerged that the account holders have been carrying out their business enterprise activities from the exact same premises. It was additional identified that there have been also several firms claiming to be the occupants of the exact same premises.
“On the basis of the photographs available in the KYC documents, one of the occupants was identified as Gaurav Singhal, who gave his statement u/s 133 A of IT Act,” the EOW stated in a statement.
In his statement, he admitted to have ready fake IDs—- voter cards and pan cards for opening numerous bank accounts in which significant amounts of money have been deposited through the period of demonetisation.
During the probe, it was identified that all the accounts have been opened making use of two unique names- Yogesh Kumar and Rahul Jain. The account opening types obtained from the concerned banks revealed that accused Gaurav Singhal had employed his personal photographs in all the 4 accounts of Canara Bank and employed photographs of some unknown persons in the remaining 3 accounts.
It was additional revealed that election I-card employed to open the seven alleged accounts have been fake and the majority of withdrawal and transfer had taken spot by means of mobile banking and Internet Banking, which was activated on the mobile quantity registered in the name of accused Singhal.
He was constantly altering his residence in unique localities of the city like Trans-Yamuna, Rohini and Noida just before the arrest.
Gaurav was nabbed by the EOW group on December 24 from a paying guest home in the Naveen Shahdara location