Delhi Police detains a man in connection with BharatPe fraud case

Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has detained a man named Amit Kumar Bansal who is connected with the BharatPe fraud case, according to official sources.    

Bansal was arrested on August 6 and produced before a court that sent him to police custody for six days.

As per the remand documents of Bansal, he was a member of the non-existing firms that had received payments of Rs 72 crore from the then directors of BharatPe between 2019 and 2021.

In its remand application, the EOW had said the "details of 33 such non-existing vendors were identified and an inquiry was carried out, wherein it was revealed that the accused and his brother were associated with the said non-existing firms".

The firms had used the same email ID — meet.bansal1983@gmil.com — it said.

In May 2023, the EOW had filed an FIR against BharatPe co-founder Ashneer Grover, his wife Madhuri Jain and their family members Deepak Gupta, Suresh Jain and Shwetank Jain in a Rs 81 crore fraud case.

BharatPe has accused Grover and his family of causing losses to the firm to the tune of about Rs 81.3 crore through illegitimate payments to bogus human-resource consultants, inflated and undue payments through pass-through vendors connected to the accused, sham transactions in input-tax credit and payment of penalty to Goods and Services Tax (GST) authorities, illegal payments to travel agencies, invoices forged by Jain and destruction of evidence.