The CBI will submit a charge sheet against Allahabad Bank CEO & MD Usha Ananthasubramanian and several others on Monday in the over Rs 13,000 crore PNB scam allegedly perpetrated by businessman Nirav Modi.
The new names included in the charge sheet are of PNB executive directors Brahmaji Rao and Sanji Saran, and general manager Nehal Ahad. Sources said these officials had not complied with circulars issued by the RBI on the SWIFT control system in 2016.
“The charge sheet will be filed in the designated CBI court in Mumbai,” an agency official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said.
It is alleged that Modi, Mehul Choksi, all partners of Diamond R US, Solar Exports, Stellar Diamonds in conspiracy with Gokulnath Shetty, then PNB deputy manager.
The CBI has registered two separate FIRs in the fraud and most of the accused in both the cases are common names. The first FIR is against Modi, Ami, Nishal and uncle Choksi along with some others. The second FIR focuses on Choksi, Gitanjali Gems and others.
Both Nirav and Choksi left the country in the first week of January along with their family members and have not returned since then despite repeated summons from the agency and the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is probing money laundering charges in the fraud.
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