TIRUPUR: Despite the Supreme Court refusing to grant anticipatory bail to the two former top officials of the Corporation Bank in a Rs 20crore forex fraud, the city police are yet to arrest them Meanwhile, Amit Thapar of Delhi, who was one among the 10 accused in the case, was arrested recently.Former assistant general manager of bank’s Coimbatore region Anand Naik, deputy general manager Padmanaba Reddy, forex senior manager Shankar of Tirupur main branch, and the same branch’s forex manager Somayajilu, had connived with account holder A Senthil Kumar and his wife R Priya of Alankadu, Senthil’s friend Rajesh Kanna of Tirupur to get loan fraudulently from the bank.Senthil and Rajesh Kanna had convinced three knitwear exporters - Nataraj, Ramasamy, and Haroon Rashid - that they would help them to get loans from the bank.Using names and credits of those three exporters, the duo had readied fake documents as if they had exported garments worth hundreds of crores. The fake documents including LC, the guarantee letter given by banks of foreign buyers to assure that payment will be made once goods reached the buyers, were submitted to the Corporation Bank.The nationalized bank fraudulently sanctioned Rs 8.34crore to Haroon but he was given around Rs 5 rore. And the rest of the amount was taken by Senthil. In case of Nataraj and Ramasamy, the credits sanctioned was Rs 6.12crore and Rs 3.92crore respectively, but they were given only lesser than 50% of the amounts.Senthil managed to get those money and paid back his outstanding loan of Rs 10.25crore to the same bank. The city’s central crime branch registered a case. In December last, AGM Anand and DGM Padmanaba appealed for anticipatory bail before the Supreme Court but the apex court turned down their pleas. But, they were neither arrested nor did they appear for inquiry.TNN

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