New Delhi : The CBI on Friday arrested two senior retired officers of Bank of India (BoI) in connection with alleged loan fraud of Rs 2,654 crore by Vadodara-based Diamond Power Infrastructure (DPIL).
V V Agnihotri and P K Shrivastava, retired GM and DGM, respectively, had allegedly granted undue favours to the company in granting credit limits, the officials said.
They said both have been arrested on Friday and will be produced before special court in Ahmedabad on Saturday.
The promoters of the company were arrested in April this year.
The agency in an FIR had said that the DPIL, which manufactures electric cables and equipment, is promoted by Suresh Narain Bhatnagar and his sons Amit and Sumit, who are also the directors of the firm
The loan, it said, was declared a non-performing asset in 2016-17.
“It is alleged that the DPIL, through its management, fraudulently availed credit facilities from a consortium of 11 banks (both public and private) since 2008, leaving behind an outstanding debit of Rs 2,654.40 crore as of June 29, 2016,” the agency had said
While Agnihotri was posted as AGM, Shrivastava was posted as DGM in the zonal office of Bank of India in Vadodara in 2007-08. Agnihotri had retired as GM and Shrivastava as DGM.
“Both had shown undue favour in the sanction of the working capital limits to a Vadodara based private firm in 2008. It was also alleged that both these officials were responsible for the processing and recommending the working capital limits to the tune of Rs 53.40 crore (approx.) in violation of the guidelines of the bank,” CBI spokesperson Abhishek Dayal said.
He said they were also allegedly responsible for disbursal of limits without ensuring compliance of conditions stipulated in the sanction. The company and its directors managed to get term loans and credit facilities despite being on the Reserve Bank of India’s defaulters list and the Export Credit Guarantee Corporation’s caution list at the time of the initial sanction of credit limits by the consortium, the CBI alleged.
