Bhubaneswar: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of State Crime Branch on Wednesday arrested one Bikash Kumar Mansingh, who masterminded siponing around Rs 5 crore of Government funds fraudulently. Earlier, four persons were arrested in this case.
Mansingh has been booked under multiple Sections of the IPC and IT Act and was produced before the Sonepur SDJM’s court today. Subarnapur CDMO had filed a complaint in this connection in April, 2021 and a month later, the EOW took over the case.
As per the complaint, an amount of Rs 5.01 lakh was unauthorisedly diverted from the account of Zilla Swasthya Samiti, National Health Mission (ZSS, NHM), Subarnapur by hacking Public Financial Management System (PFMS) of National Health Mission, to the account of M/s Naturals.
“During investigation, it was ascertained that Mansingh, a Rourkela-based businessman is the proprietor of M/s Naturals. During 2016 to 2020, he entered into a criminal conspiracy with Rajkishore Nayak, Ananta Charan Pradhan, Abinash Pradhan and Samir Kumar Pati and hacked the portal of NHM system i.e. PFMS,” the EOW stated.
They generated one e-cheque amounting to Rs 5,01,50,000 and got it cleared in a bank where Mansingh’s company has an account from a public section bank in Sonepur. Subsequent to the credit of this amount, the accused persons withdrew it for their own use.
Nayak is a former employee of NHM, Sonepur while, Ananta Charan Pradhan and Abinash Pradhan are his relatives and Pati is an employee of Mansingh. Out of siphoned amount, Rs 3.30 crore has been frozen and further investigation is on, the EOW added.
