Rs 12 crore subsidy fraud case in Odisha, 1 arrested
Sonepur: Economic Offences Wing arrested accused Chautura Deep, Proprietor of M/s KBK
Deep Agro Sales, from Dunguripalli in Sonepur. The arrested accused will most likely be produced sooner than SDJM, Bhubaneswar, within the current day.
The above well-known case has been registered on the concept of a written report submitted by Dy. S.P, A.Okay. Mishra of EOW, Bhubaneswar, who in course of his investigation into EOW PS
Case No.07 of 2021 bought right here to know regarding the payment of 1 different associated fraud by MD of M/s
Annapurna Agro International Pvt. Ltd. in conspiracy with its sellers in misappropriating the Govt. subsidy meant for the farmers/beneficiaries on purchase of agro gear amounting to Rs.12 Crores roughly.
The fraud has been devoted by manufacturing and using strong paperwork/e-mail ID, UTR and so forth. The arrested accused Chautura Deep is the proprietor of M/s KBK Deep Agro Sales, registered provider of M/s Annapurna Agro International Pvt. Ltd., Balasore, which is a producing unit of agro gear.
The company is registered beneath Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) Scheme, every as producer and provider of Agro implements like submit harvest machines, power pushed gear and rotavator and so forth.
The agency has appointed 115 no. of sellers all via Odisha, and in full of life connivance with the sellers along with the present accused Chautura Deep, proprietor of M/s KBK Deep Agro Sales, in the middle of the FY 2016-17 to 2019-20, has uploaded a sequence of false/ faux invoices /info/ data /UTR pertaining to supply/sale of approx.
1766 agro gear to equal number of farmers/ beneficiaries and managed to avail subsidy amount to the tune of Crores beneath Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) Scheme and the amount was misappropriated by the manufacturing farm and its sellers.
Pursuant to their conspiracy, the accused manufacturer-cum-dealer M/s Annapurna Agro International Pvt. Ltd. and provider Chautura Deep, Prop: M/s KBK Deep Agro Sales with the intention to
perpetrate the fraud have uploaded faux invoices, image of the implements with beneficiaries, UTR Nos. and so forth. inside the DBT portal meant for Govt. subsidy for farm implements, and thereby grabbed the subsidy amount meant for the beneficiaries/farmers. The present accused has fraudulently confirmed to have purchased/geared up 487 Nos. of agro gear involving the subsidy amount Rs.3.54 Crores approx. which has been misappropriated by the MD of the manufacturing company and the arrested accused provider.
For the goal, the accused has uploaded faux/false UTRs inside the DBT portal to get the subsidy amount launched. It has been ascertained that sooner than the subsidy amount was being credited to the account of beneficiary/ farmer, the accused people, in some cases, have collected the advance cheque from the beneficiaries beneath allurement with the intention to withdraw the total subsidy amount.
They used to take away essential subsidy amount from the beneficiaries fraudulently by paying some meagre amount to such farmers/beneficiaries. Finding the irregularities, the Dept. of Agriculture has blocked the manufacturing accused agency M/s Annapurna Agro International Pvt. Ltd. in its DBT portal.
Earlier on this case, Pradeep Kumar Acharya, MD of M/s Annapurna Agro International Pvt. Ltd. and his two sellers notably Prabha Ranjan Dash and Shaik Fayaz had been arrested and forwarded on this case. The investigation of the case is on.
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