Based on a complaint filed by Gopinath, site HR leader of WABCO private limited, and the orders of Avadi commissioner Sandeep Rai Rathore, a CCB team led by inspector Geetha conducted a probe. Six HR professionals of an Avadi-based automobile company were arrested on Wednesday.
This six human resource professionals team was accused of obtaining a sum of 6.95 crores. This crime was conducted over the span of three years by creating 129 bogus employee profiles and directing the ‘salaries’ paid to these employees into 93 accounts of their friends and relatives.
All of these six men are graduates. They were employed as SAP software duty employees in the company. They all maintained the staff member’s personal files, payroll, PF claims, and other details.
During maintaining these files in the bank account column, the accused filled in the account numbers of their family members and friends.
The inspector Geetha said, “The accused collected the forms of job aspirants who appeared for interviews and were rejected in due course.”
“They created fake payrolls in the names of these people to show they were new recruits. They then created salary accounts in each of their names and included them in the regular payroll,” she further said.
The fraud came to light during a management control review auditing this week when a former employee approached the firm asking for his pending PF amount.
Police said, “They also targeted the PF amounts of employees who had quit the firms over the years. Their friends and relatives, who saw huge amounts transferred to their accounts, were told that the unaccounted cash was part of the incentives provided by the company.”
Police said, “One of the accused Suresh even tried to cheat his gang members by creating one or two extra accounts and linking them to his accounts.”
All the arrested men S Tychicus Vivek Kumar, 32, of Periyar Nagar, M Kumaravel, 29 of Nagapattinam, V Damodharan, 29, of Villivakkam, P Suresh, 32, of Villivakkam, S Selvakumar, 32, of Alangulam, Tenkasi, D Dilip Kumar, 32 of Thiruvottiyur have been remanded in judicial custody.
While using this money all of them maintained a very lavish lifestyle. Several trips were planned to various places including Dubai and Thailand.
During their stay on the trips, they stayed only in star hotels. Also, recently flight tickets were booked to watch the IPL match in Pune.
