AMTRON official held after Rs 2.57 crore vanishes from company's account

STAFF REPORTER

GUWAHATI: An official of the Assam Electronics Development Corporation Limited (AMTRON) was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Assam Police after an amount of Rs 2.57 went missing from the company's bank account.

Rahul Huzuri who is the accounts officer of AMTRON was arrested and taken into four-day custody by the CID hours after intensive grilling at its headquarters.

After the discovery was made AMTRON had registered a case at Panbazar police station after which the CID took up the case and registered a case on its own (CID PS Case No 13/2021) and started an investigation.

It was suspected that miscreants had hacked into the account of AMTRON through online hacking but the needle of suspicion finally fell on Huzuri.

CID sources told The Sentinel that during investigation it came to light that the amount of Rs 2.57 crore was transferred to several bank accounts through RTGS from AMTRON's bank account at the Bank of Maharashtra, Panbazar branch on November 8.

The bank transferred the amount after getting a request from Huzuri's e-mail to transfer the fund. Bank authorities have freezed AMTRON's bank account after the incident.

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