After Rs 232 cr scam, Airport Authority Manager accused of diverting Rs 18 cr to personal accounts: CBI

“Currently, he is posted at the Jaipur airport with the same portfolio. Searches were conducted last week at his official and residential premises in Jaipur, which led to the recovery of incriminating materials, including documents on immovable properties and valuable securities,” the CBI spokesperson had said.

On September 17, a fresh FIR was lodged by the CBI based on a complaint from one Akhlesh Jain, Manager (Finance), on behalf of the Officer in-Charge at Jaipur Airport. The FIR said, “It has been alleged that in their internal enquiry, it has been found that Rahul Vijay, during his posting at Jaipur airport, misappropriated funds entrusted to him by AAI between October 2024 and February 2025. Investigations reveal that after gaining control and administrative access to AAI’s expenditure bank account at the SBI in Jaipur, Vijay used his position as an authorised signatory to transfer funds illegally.”

According to the complaint, Vijay allegedly manipulated the system by adding himself as a beneficiary at the last moment before executing payment mandates, resulting in fraudulent transactions that inflated payments to regular and separated AAI employees under various vouchers while diverting Rs 18.12 crore to his two personal bank accounts. “These accounts include one previously held at SBI (now closed) and another with the Axis Bank,” the FIR said.

According to the FIR, the internal enquiry, conducted by a committee of AAI, has also found that he has allegedly created false documents, vouchers, mandate to the bank and has allegedly got huge money transferred to his bank account by fraudulently getting control of the bank account of AAI. “He has transferred money to regular/separated employees of AAI and under the same vouchers/documents, he has transferred money to his own account by inflating the figure. An amount of around Rs 18.12 crore through fraudulent entries were charged off under various revenue expenditure heads at different dates in the last one year,” the FIR said.

“The role of bank officials cannot be ruled out, in view of the huge transfers from the official account of AAI to the saving accounts of an individual and reporting of these transactions to the Income Tax Department,” the FIR said.

From the homepage

US revoked visas of Indian business executives over link to fentanyl trade: Embassy

‘I respect all religions’: CJI Gavai on critical social media posts over his comments in Khajuraho case

France’s Macron to submit ‘photographic, scientific evidence’ that wife Brigitte is a woman