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The CBI, on December 13th, has arrested a Senior Special Assistant of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in Bengaluru, for allegedly involved in the illegal exchange of currency notes. Earlier, on the same day, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had nabbed 7 middlemen who were also involved in similar activities. A sum of Rs. 93 lakhs in total has been seized. This is again, a great news in furtherance of the demonitisation policy of PM Modi.
Here too, one of the ED authorities had gone as a fake customers to one of these middlemen. This middleman is said to have some links with the officials in the banks. ED is further investigating the matter for more details.
The arrest comes at a time when frequent raids by ED officials and police have led to confiscation of huge sums of money in form of new currency notes from across the country.
The Home Ministry has taken cognizance of the matter as reports of senior bank officials being involved in the illegal exchange are surfacing.
Till now, more than Rs 250 crore has reportedly been seized in multiple raids across the country since announcement of demonetisation move by Prime Minister Modi ji on November 8th, more than a month ago.
Even recently, a lawyer from Greater Kailash in New Delhi had been arrested for having a total of Rs. 13.5 crores, out of which, almost Rs. 3 crores were in the new currency notes.
While the ruling party is still being criticized by the opposition for the poor implementation of the demonetisation policy, it should look into the facts that a large number of arrests are being made everyday in this regard. That itself is a success story of the government.
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