DBGB fraud: EOU urged to register FIR, start probe

PATNA: Nawada regional manager of Dakshin Bihar Gramin Bank (DBGB), Zafar Ala, has written to Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of the state police to register an FIR and take up investigation into the embezzlement of Rs 92 lakh allegedly by five staff of the bank posted at Warisaliganj and Bernawa branches in Nawada and Malahiya branch near Tekari in Gaya.
Besides these frauds, the bank is also investigating into illegal transfer of Rs 1.09 crore from the accounts of several customers in Asha Parari branch in Buxar.The suspended manager of the bank branch, Dr Ravi Shankar Kumar, was arrested from Patna on June 6.
Ala said he had written to the EOU almost a week back and requested it to take up investigation against the bank’s two managers, Yogesh Kumar and Madhulika Rani, and three cashiers who were found involved in the embezzlement after an internal inquiry.
He said two separate FIRs were lodged with Warisaliganj police station and Pakri Barawan police station in Nawada and one in Gaya in connection with the frauds and five bank staff had been suspended.
He said Yogesh had been posted at the Bernawa branch and Warisaliganj branch of the bank before joining as manager at the Malahiya branch in Gaya.
Madhulika was posted as manager at the Warisaliganj branch before being transferred to Ram Raipur branch in Shiekhpura. “Yogesh had transferred customers’ fixed deposits into his own account and also the accounts of his family members,” he said.
“The internal inquiry of the bank had started in April this year. It ended recently after which FIRs were lodged with three different police stations,” he said.