Indian police arrested a senior executive of the country's biggest motorcycle maker on Monday in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud involving a local Citibank branch, police said. Sanjay Gupta, associate vice president of Hero Corporate Services, was held on charges of criminal conspiracy in Gurgaon, a booming satellite town near New Delhi, local police chief Surgeet Singh Deshwal told reporters.
Gupta's arrest came less than a week after an executive at Gurgaon's Citibank branch, Shivraj Puri, was arrested on charges of defrauding wealthy customers. "Puri is being interrogated as the immediate aim of the police is to save people's money," the Gurgaon police chief said.
He said that Gupta was being held on suspicion of benefiting from fraudulent transactions involving Hero group funds. Police allege Puri and his associates using forged documents to siphon off more than four billion rupees (88 million dollars) into bogus financial schemes from the accounts of corporate clients and wealthy individuals.