Former Goa Ranji cricketer Nilesh Prabhudesai brought to light another alleged embezzlement of GCA funds allocated to them. Addressing the media in Panaji on Monday, Prabhudesai stated that as per the audit report directed to the members of Goa Cricket Association by Patil Manickrao S, Chartered Accountant, an amount of Rs 5,87, 22, 055, which was paid by BCCI vide Cheque No.
100300 dated 31.03.2008 does not reflect in the balance sheet of GCA for the financial year 2007-08 and also 2009.
The Goan Network
Panaji
With three senior officials from the GCA cooling their heels behind bars following their arrest for siphoning off funds crossing over Rs 3 crore, for ulterior motives, worms continued to wriggle out from the 'can of fraud' in what appeared to be just the tip of iceberg of a bigger scam of alarming proportions.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday, former Goa Ranji cricketer Nilesh Prabhudesai brought to light another alleged embezzlement of GCA funds allocated to them.
He stated that as per the audit report to the members of Goa Cricket Association by Patil Manickrao S, Chartered Accountant, an amount of Rs 5,87, 22, 055, which was paid by BCCI vide Cheque No.
100300 dated 31.03.2008 does not reflect in the balance sheet of GCA for the financial year 2007-08 and also 2009. He strongly alleged that the aforesaid astronomical amount has been
misappropriated by the then Executive Committee members. He further alleged Chetan Dessai, Vinod Phadke and Akbar Mulla, as suspects, as they are currently in police custody for another suspected fraud committed by them to the tune of whopping Rs 3.13 crore for the financial
year 2007-08.
Prabhudesai further alleged that the cheque of Rs 5,87, 22,055 is reflecting as payment to Goa
Cricket Association vide Cheque No. 100300 dated 31.03.2008, but is not reflecting in the received
ledger of GCA and also in the balance sheet for the financial year 2007-08 and 2008-09.
To throw further light on the suspected fraud, the media were given enclosed copies of the CBI Report given to Directorate of Vigilance, Goa wherein they had investigated the Chartered Accountant of GCA Patil Manickrao S and also the BCCI Ledger book and also fraudulent Current Account with bearing no: 05520200000347 in DCB Bank.
Prabhudesai pointed out that at the time this misappropriation happened, Dayanand Narvekar served as GCA President with Chetan Desai being General Secretary. He alleged that the bank manager or a higher authority ought to be also involved in executing the misappropriation of funds.
Prabhudesai disclosed that he has made an appeal to the investigation officer to check all the bank
records from the year 2001 till date where there is an account under the name of GCA and where the
'fallen' three giants have made bank transactions whatsoever be the number. He clearly mentioned that whosoever have held a GCA post from 2001 till date have to be probed to so that the entire case is investigated threadbare.
