Case filed against bank officials for faulty loan

TNN | Dec 30, 2017, 07.07 AM IST
Case filed against bank officials for faulty loan
CHENNAI: CBI, Chennai busted a case where officials of UCO bank in 2014 gave a loan worth 4.9 crore to an export firm which provided allegedly forged land documents as collateral. The loan eventually became a Non Performing Asset (NPA).

The central government senior counsel, who provided legal advice pertaining to the land deeds pledged as collateral and a panel valuer of the bank have also been named as accused in the FIR. A case of conspiracy, cheating, forgery, criminal misconduct and abuse of official position by government servants has been made out.

PL Acharya, then assistant general manager (now retired), R Jayanandan then senior manager (now retired) both of Chennai main branch, Palanivel and K Suresh Babu, both partners at the VIP Exports, V Bala subramani, panel valuer and advocate Damodaran, the central government senior panel counsel have been named as accused.