MARGAO
With 17 applications filed in connection with the Curchorem scam of siphoning money from account holders, the district police on Wednesday said the total amount of money siphoned off by the fraudsters is now pegged at around Rs 1.29 crore.
Addressing the media at the South Goa district police headquarters here on Wednesday, Superintendent of Police, South, Sunita Sawant, told the media that the police are examining the complaints received by the Curchorem police station, adding that the police have already registered FIRs in four cases as of now.
She further pointed out that the Investigation Officer, PI Vaibhav Naik, was transferred out of the Curchorem police station on the grounds that sufficient police support should have been provided by the IO to the lady senior citizen complainant, who is a cancer patient and is undergoing chemotherapy. She, however, hastened to add that the complainant, Rosaline Corriea, had told the police that she would file her complaint once her son returns from Dubai in two days’ time.
Saying that the Curchorem police have arrested Tanvi Vast and the Central Bank of India Cacora Branch manager in connection with the fraud, SP Sawant said the bank manager, Anand Ganpat Jadhav, a native of Satara, Maharashtra, has been arrested for allegedly facilitating the senior citizens in approaching accused Tanvi Vast for documentation.
Explaining the modus operandi adopted by accused Tanvi Vast, SP Sawant said the accused, who is not a bank employee, tried to help the senior citizens fill up their forms and transferred their money into her account.
“The senior citizens were sent to accused Tanvi by the bank manager when they wanted to fill up forms, especially for fixed deposits. After taking the signatures of the victims, the accused used to transfer the money from the accounts of the victims to her account,” she added.
