Kendrapara: A private bank manager was arrested for allegedly duping customers of lakh of rupees on the pretext of sanctioning loans at low-interest rates in the Kendrapara district.
The accused has been identified as Manmohan Mohanty.
As per reports, Mohanty collect bank cheques from the customers as documents for loans. Later, he used the cheques and debited funds from customers’ accounts in a fraudulent manner.
The matter came to fore after the proprietor of Jagannath traders at Saanta Sahi under town police limits in the district lodged a complaint with the police in this regard.
He alleged that the manager had withdrawn Rs 13 lakh from his bank account using cheques which he had given him for sanction of loans.
Based on the complaint, the police registered a case and started an investigation. During the course of inquiry, police found that the manager had cheated a number of people in a similar manner.
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