HYDERABAD: Postal department employees, who played a key role in the cash transaction scam that was unearthed in various post offices in the city, are understood to been working in tandem with Gujarat-based businessmen.
After raids and registering criminals cases, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Hyderabad unit officials have found that irregularities took place at various post offices in the process of exchanging `2,000 notes with demonetised notes of `500 and `1,000. The CBI officials unearthed irregularities worth `2 crore.
The CBI sleuths found irregularities to the tune of `36 lakh and `1.3 crore in Himayathnagar and Golconda post offices respectively. Senior Superintendent of post offices, Hyderabad City division, K Sudheer Babu is reportedly the main accused in the scam.
Sources in CBI told Express that the prime accused in the scam, Sudheer Babu, allegedlyw has connections with businessmen from various states, especially from Gujarat.
The investigators suspect that Sudheer Babu has allegedly accepted huge commission and gifts in the form of gold and diamonds from these businessmen.
The CBI is said to have intensified the probe based on the call detail record (CDR) of the mobile phones of the accused. In the process, they identifyied these businessmen. Following the latest developments in the scam, for the first time the hawala gangs running their illegal business in transporting the huge cash would come under scanner of the CBI based on the prima facie in the irregularities.
Source : http://www.newindianexpress.com
