PNB Fraud: CBI Seizes Rs 28 Lakh More From Bank Locker Of Bhubaneswar-Based Firm’s Ex-Director

Bhubaneswar: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has seized Rs 28.10 lakh more from a bank locker in Bhubaneswar in connection with the Rs 31.92 Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud.

CBI sleuths seized the money from the locker of a former director of Global Trading Solutions Limited, Kaushik Mohanty, at PNB’s Chandrasekharpur branch on Thursday.

Following this, a CBI official informed that the inspection of Mohanty’s bank locker is still on, The New Indian Express(TNIE) reported.

Apart from CBI, the Enforcement Directorate has also registered a case of money laundering against PNB officials as well as the directors of Global Trading Solutions.

On June 16, Anti-Corruption Branch officials had seized Rs 37.90 lakh from Mohanty’s locker at the Patia branch of Corporation Bank (now merged with Union Bank of India).

The investigators have also lodged a case under various sections against M/s Global Trading Solutions Ltd (Bhubaneswar), its Managing Director Abinash Mohanty and former directors, Kaushik Mohanty, Anshuman Samantaray and Bidhubhusan Nayak.

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