Sixteen persons, including several office-bearers of the Beed District Central Cooperative Bank (BDCCB), have been booked for the alleged fraud to the tune of Rs 80 lakh in various branches of the bank, police said.
They have been booked for withdrawing money from the account holders of the bank, including farmers, they added.
Five persons, including the manager of Pimpalner BDCCB branch Rajkumar Davkar, have been booked for allegedly withdrawing Rs 60 lakh from the bank account holders.
Dharur tehsil police have registered a case against former branch manager R G Jadhav and Hanuman Bhagvat Bade of BDCCB of Dharur branch for the fraud of Rs 6.90 lakh, based on a complaint by former assistant manager of the bank Keshav Aaghav.
At Dindrud branch of BDCCB, former branch manager Narayan Eknath Dongre, cashier Dilip Kamble, clerk Godavari Tidke and peon Vishal Bahir were booked from the account of a bank holder. They had withdrawn money Rs 4 lakh from a farmer’s account.