New Delhi, May 10: Delhi police today claimed to have detected financial frauds worth crores of rupees in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and has registered a case under various sections of the economic offences. Though no one has been arrested so far, deputy commissioner of police (economic offences wing) Dinesh Bhatt said in-depth investigation was required to identify the MCD officials, private contractors, middle men and other beneficiaries involved in the scam. He said double and triple payments have allegedly been released in favour of the contractors for the same work.
In order to achieve their dubious object of causing wrongful loss to the MCD, the corporation officials in connivance with the contractors, manipulated the official records and account books, Bhatt said. Citing some examples, he said offences included withdrawal of Rs 12.15 lakh from the bank in excess of the expenditure booked in the accounts, extra-polation of digits and words of the amount on the cheques worth Rs 6.03 lakh, payments worth Rs 346.80 lakh made without budget slips and non-remittance of the recovery amount into municipal treasury worth Rs 133.78 lakh. Bureau Report