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The anti-corruption branch of the CBI, Goa, has registered a FIR against two individuals and several unidentified public servants of a nationalised bank with a branch in Candolim for allegedly defrauding the bank of nearly Rs 1 crore by fraudulently obtaining loans through forged documents.
The CBI claims that the main suspects, Shubham Naik from Duler, Mapusa, and Neeta Shettigar, also known as Xettigar, from Santa Cruz, Tiswadi, collaborated with unidentified bank officials to illegally obtain a number of loans by submitting fabricated documentation. It is alleged that the bank was tricked into authorizing the loans.
After an investigation that was prompted by a complaint filed in mid-September 2024 by Maria Philomena Shalini Lobo, a shop owner from Umtavaddo, Calangute, the fraud was discovered.
Lobo claimed in her complaint that bank employees at the Candolim branch colluded with unidentified individuals (borrowers) to authorize loans through the use of fictitious documents connected to her store and its title deeds.
According to the CBI, comparable loans were also taken out on a few other properties.
According to her, the loan applications were granted between 2019 and 2020. Lobo received several bank notifications indicating that her loan accounts were in default and that she was being labeled a “wilful defaulter” even though she had not applied for any loans herself.
