The Noida police have submitted a charge against a former accounting employee of a private company for stealing cheque books and fraudulently transferring Rs. 70 lakh from the firm’s accounts, officials said on Thursday. 11 persons have been booked so far in the investigation.
In a FIR filed with the Phase-1 police station on Wednesday, the complainant, a Ghaziabad resident and senior accounting officer of CTA Apparels Pvt Ltd in Sector-3 in Noida, accused the company’s former employee of committing fraud.
“He said that the former employee worked as an accounts officer with the company from 2019 to 2022. During this time, he allegedly stole several of the company’s cheque books and cashed the cheques using fake signatures,” said the station house officer of Phase-1 police station.
The accused allegedly utilised checkbooks to transfer Rs. 70 lakh from the corporate account to his associates’ accounts.
“In December 2023, when he was finally caught, he admitted to the fraud and provided a written guarantee that he would return all the money. Since then, he has returned Rs. 11 lakh till May 2024. However, since the past three months, he has been unreachable and the company is unable to take back the remaining amount from him,” the complainant said in the complaint and sought the police’s help in getting back the remaining amount.
