Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Businessman duped ICICI bank of Rs 2.2. crore

Last year Mumbai police had arrested a business who was one of Haseena Parker’s associates has been arrested again by EOW on Tuesday on the new complaint lodged by ICICI bank on the charges of doing fraud of Rs 2.2.crore.

ICICI bank officials lodged a complaint on October 11, 2006 against the businessman, Krishnamilan alias Baba Shukla. The EOW is searching for two of Shukla's associates, builder Arshad Shaikh and Sameer.

The police said in the EOW case a first round of inquiry has been done before registering an FIR. "Shukla had floated a company called Biltech Engineering in Vashi.

Arshad Shaikh would persuade several people to submit their documents to procure loans from banks and promised them to pay around Rs 50,000 each. On receiving the documents, Shaikh, with the help of Sameer, prepared some more fake documents and took housing loan of Rs 2.2 crore from the ICICI bank," said a police officer.

The money was purportedly deposited in Shaikh's account as he had posed as a developer for the project. "Shukla had withdrawn money from Shaikh's account. On going through the documents, bank officials realized documents were fake and lodged a complaint," said the officer.

Earlier also Shukla (41) was arrested in connection with extortion and cheating case involving Dawood Ibrahim's younger sister Haseena Parkar and six others. The case was about the development of an SRA plot near Wadala, for which real estate broker Vinod Avlani paid Shukla and his associates Rs 1 crore.

When Shukla and the others did not hand over the project or return the money, Avlani lodged a complaint. Later, Shukla also filed a complaint to the ACB that two crime branch officers asked him for money in return for not pursuing the case.

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