Jammu, Feb 18 (UNI) The Jammu Crime Branch has arrested five persons, including a bank officer and a fake district horticulture officer, in a multi-crore J&K bank loan scam.
Senior Superintendent of Police Crime Jammu Benam Tosh said that a case was registered on a written complaint lodged by Chief Manager S&C Division, Zonal Office J&K Bank Jammu, Mohammadd Shakeel, wherein he alleged that Saleem Yousuf Bhatti, who was a contractual employee with IWMP Poonch and others, had activated the inactive accounts of the Watershed Committee at Branch Lassana, Surankote Poonch.
The accused got the nomenclature of the accounts changed, issued fake salary certificates and confirmation letters to different non-existing employees, and managed to get personal loans, cash credit loans, car loans etc. by posing themselves as government employees, he said.