The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case u/s 120B IPC r/w 420 IPC and 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d) of P.C. Act 1988 against the then Additional Central Provident Fund Commissioner and other 8 then officers of EPFO Delhi who had entered into a criminal conspiracy with Managing Directors, two Director & one General Manager, HR of Delhi based private firm. In pursuance to this criminal conspiracy the accused allegedly created false records in respect of certain employees engaged, inflated the number of excluded employees, manipulated the period of engagement of employees and thereby manipulated the amount of Provident Fund liability which was due and payable by the said private firm. The accused public servants abused their official position and unjustifiably facilitated the private firm to cause wrongful gain of Rs. 169 Crore to themselves and corresponding wrongful loss to the public exchequer.
Searches conducted at 23 places in & around Delhi, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Jaipur, Noida, have yielded recovery of several incriminating documents relating to immovable and movable assets belonging to the accused persons and other documents. The documents are being scrutinized for further investigation.
CBI Press Release
New Delhi , 06-07-2011
