Case of alleged forgery, cheating: ED attaches assets worth Rs 45 cr of former NSG officer, his family members

“Yadav had joined the NSG on deputation from the Border Security Force (BSF) and was posted as a team commander (equivalent to deputy commandant rank) at the garrison of the commando force located at Manesar in Gurugram, near Delhi,” it stated.

“The alleged fraud in the name of giving NSG contracts came to the fore in January last year after the Gurugram police arrested the NSG officer, who allegedly posed as an IPS officer working in the commando force, his wife Mamata Yadav, sister Rituraj, who was working as a manager in the Axis Bank sector 84 branch in Gurugram, and a few others,” an ED spokesperson said.

“The police filed a total of five FIRs against the accused, including Dinesh Mohan Sorkhi, Kamal Singh, Koshia Enterprises Pvt Ltd, Naveen Khatodia, Axis Bank and unidentified persons. The investigation found that Praveen Yadav opened a forged bank account in the name of EMD (earnest money deposit) for central warehouse NSG, Manesar with Axis Bank, Gurugram, and had given forged documents to all the complainants (interested contractors) projecting these as documents to have been issued by the force for upcoming tenders for works at the NSG campus,” the spokesperson said.

“Through various bank accounts maintained by Praveen Yadav, including one in the name of EMD for central warehouse NSG Manesar, he received money fraudulently from the complainants and cheated them. This money has either been “layered” through various bank accounts or invested in the trading accounts or been used for making payments for the purchase of movable and immovable properties with the help of Mamata Yadav, Rituraj Yadav, Naveen and Dinesh Kumar,” the ED alleged.

According to the ED, it was found that the accused diverted the funds to purchase land and luxurious cars. The NSG is a federal contingency force mandated to undertake counter-terrorism, counter-hijack, VVIP security and other specific security tasks and its armed commandos are known as ‘black cats’ because of the black uniform worn by them.