The Andhra Pradesh Police on Wednesday arrested Kommireddy Avinash, the main accused in a scam involving siphoning off E-challan amounts in the police department.
The cops also seized 16 properties across Andhra Pradesh worth Rs 13 crore that belonged to accused Avinash.
Avinash is the nephew of former DGP N Sambasiva Rao, who has amassed movable and immovable assets on a large scale after getting the E-Challans contract in 2019.
The arrested accused agreed with the department to deposit the payments received from the commuters related to traffic penalties to a payment gateway called Razor Pay has diverted the entire penalty amount to a fake app called Razor PE.
A case has been registered in the Mangalagiri Police Station and Guntur IG Palaraju said that they arrested Avinash after identifying him as the main accused in the scam.
“We seized 16 assets worth Rs.13 crore belonging to Avinash. The value of the assets will be more than Rs.30 crore in the open market. He has to get Rs.25 crore in the form of dues as service charges from the companies to which he has extended the cloud services. We recover the misused Rs.36.58 crore with the above-said assets and dues. It is unfortunate to say that our department was duped,” Palaraju said.
The Director General of Police (DGP) has ordered an internal enquiry into the loopholes that took place in the entire process.
“We are also enquiring about the involvement of two other persons in the scam. We will arrest them very soon. We stopped receiving payments through E-Challans since the scam came to light. We decided to deposit the payments received through E-Challans to the police department through the National Informatic Center (NEC)”, Palaraju added.
The police earlier arrested another accused Rajasekhar in the case.
The accused has expanded his business by providing as many as 52 types of services to many companies in various services through Amazon cloud services, which he purchased at Rs 41 crore by using the siphoned amount.
The police also found that he purchased flats, villas, and vacant land in and around the Hyderabad-Rangareddy area.
The construction of a five-storied building has been underway in the name of Rajasekhar in the case. He purchased a car from a showroom in Hyderabad by spending more than Rs.1.5 crore one-half year ago.
The police also identified that Avinash has been given salaries and loans to as many as 30 IT working under him through the fake account. Accounts have been opened under the name of Razor PE in various banks in Hyderabad, Telangana and Karnataka.
The accused has been providing services to the department related to medical services and DISCOM companies in Telangana and lending services to the Central Government also, the police said.
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