EMBEZZLEMENT CASE: FRAUDSTER DUO LINKED TO BM KCC BANK, MALKANGIRI NABBED BY ODISHA VIGILANCE.

Malkangiri: Odisha Vigilance today nabbed Sushree Nibedita Tarai & her live-in partner Nrusingh Prasad Khamari, both linked to Sudhansu Khora, Branch Manager, KCC Bank, Malkangiri, for their alleged involvement in connection with embezzlement of Govt. funds over Rs.1.08 Crore. Sri Khora, was arrested on 5th May and is currently on police remand under interrogation. The money trail investigation so far revealed that Shri Khora had transferred nearly Rs 63 lakhs of the misappropriated amount to his accomplice Sushree Nibedita Tarai and Nrusingh Prasad Khamari as part of a conspiracy to avoid detection. Shri Khora came into contact with Sushree Nibedita Tarai @ Sushree Sulagna through Facebook profile and jointly prepared a plan to siphon off Bank funds. Sri Khamari stated to have been in live-in relationship with Sushree Tarai for a long time.

Separate parallel investigation and interrogation of the fraudster duo Sri Khamari and Susree Tarai has revealed that the duo were professional racketeers and may have cheated a number of persons and committed more such frauds. A case appears to have been registered in Bangalore Police Commissionerate for a fraud of Rs 14 lakhs committed by Khamari. Also, another fraud of Rs 30 lakhs appear to have been committed by them in Jagatsinghpur. Similar, frauds by the duo in Baripada, Paradip and Bhubaneswar are likely.

So far 25 Bank accounts of the duo in different banks are being scrutinized by the Finance/Banking experts of Vigilance. Also, 12 Stock trading accounts opened by them are under scrutiny to ascertain money trail and other frauds. During their house searches in Bhubaneswar/Khordha, 33 Mobile phones (of which 27 were damaged after specific crimes to destroy evidence), desktop, tablet, jewellery purchased from the misappropriated money, a drone, high end cameras, etc have been recovered and seized.

Both Sri Khora and Sushree Nibedita Tarai appear to be running a crime syndicate to enrich themselves intentionally by way of cheating others, which is under investigation.