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CBI Arrests AAI Senior Manager in Alleged Rs 232 Crore Dehradun Embezzlement

The case stems from an AAI audit that flagged duplicate asset entries with inflated values used to route funds to personal accounts.

Overview

  • The FIR followed an August 18 complaint from AAI built on an internal audit that flagged abnormal capitalisation between 2019–20 and 2022–23.
  • Investigators searched the official and residential premises of Rahul Vijay in Jaipur on August 28 before taking him into custody.
  • The complaint alleges he created duplicate and fictitious assets, inflated values and employed three SBI online user IDs as an authorised signatory to move money to personal accounts.
  • A cited instance describes Rs 67.81 crore in genuine entries on September 29, 2021, followed by 17 fictitious assets totaling about Rs 189 crore the next day.
  • The FIR invokes conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, forgery and falsification of accounts under the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act, with preliminary tracing indicating transfers to trading accounts.