MAN EMBEZZLES ₹50 LAKH FROM FIRM; BOOKED

Vijay Kumar Yadav

MUMBAI: An employee of a Borivali-based medical equipment supplier was booked on Friday for allegedly defrauding the company of nearly ₹50 lakh. The accused would make an advance payment of an excess amount to the company’s subcontractors and later contact them and ask them to return the excess money to his bank account through UPI.

The employee, Ankit Rajesh Chaurasia, a resident of Borivali West, has been booked on the complaint of Dr Vishal Jain, the director of Healthmeter Services Private Limited.

As per the FIR, Dr Jain on October 20, received a call from the manager of Rebel Foods, one of his company’s clients. He informed Jain that a few of their company employees still did not have got the Typhoid vaccination, despite the payment and medical examination already completed.

On scrutiny, Jain discovered that Helen Curis was supposed to be paid ₹6 lakh, however, they had received ₹15.5 lakh.

When Jain confronted Chaurasia, he could not give an explanation. Sensing embezzlement of funds, Jain then asked his accounts manager to scrutinize all the business transactions with sub-contractors to whom the company had paid in advance.

He then came across a list of sub-contractors to whom they have paid in excess. “When Jain spoke to senior executives, he discovered that Chaurasia would ensure that the excess amount was paid and then he would contact the officers and tell them that by mistake excess amount was paid and would request them to revert it to his bank account,” a police officer said. “In this manner Chaurasia defrauded his employer of nearly 50 lakh.”