Overview
- Investigators say former accounts officer Mohit replaced vendors’ pre-printed QR codes with ones tied to his UBS Swiss franc account, diverting mission payments.
- Auditors detected duplicate payments to local vendor Ejey Travels, prompting a review that estimated losses at about CHF 200,000.
- Officials report that monthly bank statements were edited to substitute the accused’s name with vendors’ names, allowing the diversion to escape routine reconciliations.
- After a written admission, the accused was repatriated to India and credited CHF 12,830, CHF 9,825 and CHF 28,000 back to the mission’s account.
- The CBI has registered a case citing criminal breach of trust, forgery, falsification of accounts and Prevention of Corruption Act provisions, with the probe ongoing in the context of similar online trading and crypto-gambling cases.