Axis Bank: ED files money laundering case over customer identity forge in Noida

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case in the alleged forging of a customer's identity to conduct huge illegal transactions in an Axis Bank branch in Noida for conversion of black funds into white post demonetization. The individual, identified as N Paswan, in his complaint filed with the police has claimed that his identity has been forged and a current and a savings account were opened in his name in the said branch which were allegedly used to launder crores of rupees post demonetization.

They said the amount under scanner of the central probe agency is over Rs 60 crore. Officials added that the agency is probing more than two dozen accounts in the bank here which could have been used to perpetrate the crime of money laundering, in the wake of the scrapping of Rs 1000/500 notes. Meanwhile, the ED also conducted searches on the premises of four bullion traders in Mumbai on Friday in a similar probe. The agency has also sought freezing of few bank accounts of these traders as part of its probe, they said.

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