Online gaming: Banker charge-sheeted by CBI for embezzling Rs 55 crore
The CBI has charge-sheeted a bank officer and his accomplice whose rapacious appetite for online gaming lured them to allegedly embezzle more than Rs 55 crore from various accounts, a major chunk of which was funnelled to virtual betting tables, officials said on Monday.
In what transpired to be a tale of avarice and subterfuge, the CBI alleged that accused officer Bedanshu Shekhar Mishra and his accomplice Shailesh Kumar Jaiswal committed forgery in Punjab & Sind Bank, where Mishra was employed, to channel funds from various bank accounts into various betting games online, they said.
Mishra was posted at the North Campus branch of Punjab & Sind Bank at Khalsa College of Delhi University since June 28, 2021. In a statement during bank enquiry, Mishra admitted to having used banking IDs of colleagues to make illegal transfers for online gaming purpose, the officials said.
In the CBI's scrutiny, Mishra was found to have "illegally and without any authority" encashed 32 fix ...