Bhadohi: A fake bank has been busted in Bhadohi, Uttar Pradesh. The team of Cyber Cell, Crime Branch and Gyanpur police station has arrested two fake managing directors and others in this case. Along with this, fake documents, computers and lakhs of rupees in cash have also been recovered. According to the police, this fake bank had opened many branches in UP. This bank had a turnover of about Rs 17 crore.
According to Superintendent of Police Dr. Anil Kumar, 38 branches of the fake bank were running at different places including Bhadohi, Varanasi, Jaunpur, Sonbhadra, Mirzapur, Azamgarh and Ghazipur. This bank had also made a large number of its customers. The police have started the process of freezing the bank accounts of the arrested accused. Along with this, the police is also ascertaining how much money the bank has earned so far.
For months a fake bank was running in the name of BSMJ
This matter is of Gyanpur of Bhadohi. A fake bank named BSMJ was running here for the past months. According to the police officials, the bank used to deposit their money by making attractive promises to the people. Bank employees would say that their money would double in a short time. According to the police, their modus operandi was that when a lot of money was deposited in their bank, they would close the bank and abscond from there.
target innocent people
According to the police, the employees of the fake bank used to target innocent people. On this, Superintendent of Police Dr. Anil Kumar had ordered the Cyber and Crime Branch team to investigate the matter. According to Anil Kumar, dozens of forgery complaints were received continuously in Bhadohi. After this action was taken on May 19.
The accused were running a bank in the city in the name of BSMJ Quasi Bank/Nidhi. Police have recovered 3 four wheelers, 3 laptops, 3 mobiles and 36 thousand cash during the action. On the other hand, 9 CPUs, 12 monitors, 6 mouse, 2 printers, 5 keyboards, fake 53 stamps, more than 70 registers and 618 passbooks have also been recovered from the spot.
Fake Chief Managing Director Arrest
According to Dr. Anil Kumar, the estimated value of all the items recovered from the bank is approximately Rs 67 lakh 25 thousand. The accused also used to give loans to the people. Among those arrested by the police, Murari Kumar Nishad, a resident of Hariharpur police station Chandwak in Jaunpur. This is a fake Chief Managing Director. On the other hand, the second accused is Ashok Kumar, a resident of Chudi Gali police station, Obra, Sonbhadra. Ashok was on the post of fake Managing Director. According to the police, one more accused has been arrested, who is from Sonbhadra. His name is Ramesh Jaiswal. Ramesh used to call himself a retired manager of SBI Bank.