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CBI Arrests AAI Finance Manager in Rs 232 Crore Embezzlement Case

Investigators are tracing transfers routed through fictitious asset entries into trading accounts.

Overview

  • The CBI said it has arrested Rahul Vijay, a senior Airports Authority of India manager, on allegations he diverted about Rs 232 crore of public funds.
  • An FIR was registered after an AAI review flagged abnormal capitalisation of assets at Dehradun Airport across financial years 2019–20 to 2022–23.
  • Investigators allege the accused created duplicate and fictitious assets and inflated values by adding zeros to entries to mask the outflows.
  • The complaint states he abused authorised signatory access on AAI’s SBI account, generated multiple user IDs, and shifted small then large sums to his personal accounts from February 2019 to August 2022.
  • CBI teams searched his office and residence in Jaipur on August 28, recovered documents and securities, and say preliminary forensics show onward transfers to trading accounts.