According to HT reports, CBI suspects that a couple of hundreds of ghost bank accounts were opened by using Aadhaar card numbers of villagers to siphon off proceeds from the cattle smuggling operation.
The money from these accounts was transferred to various banks in Kolkata and other places over the last few years. The central investigative agency has been looking into the matter since 2016. The CBI informed the court in Asansol in Bengal’s West Burdwan district during a hearing recently.
Birbhum District Central Cooperative Bank Ltd has its headquarters at Siuri town where the ghost accounts were opened in the names of farmers and homemakers from local villages without their knowledge.