Odisha Vigilance arrested Sushree Nibedita Tarai and her live-in partner Nrusingh Prasad Khamari, both linked to Sudhansu Khora, Branch Manager, KCC Bank, Malkangiri, for their alleged involvement in connection with embezzlement of Government funds over Rs 1.08 Crore.
Khora, was arrested on 4th May and is currently on police remand under interrogation. The money trail investigation so far revealed that Khora had transferred nearly Rs 63 lakh of the misappropriated amount to his accomplice Sushree Nibedita Tarai and Nrusingh Prasad Khamari as part of a conspiracy to avoid detection.
Khora came into contact with Sushree Nibedita Tarai @ Sushree Sulagna through Facebook profile and jointly prepared a plan to siphon off Bank funds. Khamari stated to have been in live-in relationship with Sushree Tarai for a long time.
Separate parallel investigation and interrogation of the fraudster duo Khamari and Susree Tarai has revealed that the duo were professional racketeers and may have cheated a number of persons and committed more such frauds.
A case appears to have been registered in Bangalore Police Commissionerate for a fraud of Rs 14 lakhs committed by Khamari.
Also, another fraud of Rs.30 lakhs appear to have been committed by them in Jagatsinghpur. Similar, frauds by the duo in Baripada, Paradeep and Bhubaneswar are likely.
So far 25 Bank accounts of the duo in different banks are being scrutinized by the Finance/Banking experts of Vigilance. Also, 12 Stock trading accounts opened by them are under scrutiny to ascertain money trail and other frauds.
During their house searches in Bhubaneswar/Khordha, 33 Mobile phones (of which 27 were damaged after specific crimes to destroy evidence), desktop, tablet, jewellery purchased from the misappropriated money, a drone, high end cameras, etc have been recovered and seized.
Further, steps are being taken to freeze Bank accounts of accused persons namely Khora, Khamari and Sushree Tarai as well as investments made by Khamari and Sushree Tarai in share markets.
In this connection, Koraput Vigilance PS Case No. 4 & 5/2026 U/s 13(2) r/w 13 (1)(a)-12 PC (Amendment) Act, 2018/316(5)/336(3)/340(2)/344/318(4)/ 61(2) BNS,2023 was registered against the accused persons namely Sushree Nibedita Tarai and Nrusingh Prasad Khamari and they will be forwarded to the Court.
Both Khora and Sushree Nibedita Tarai appear to be running a crime syndicate to enrich themselves intentionally by way of cheating others, which is under investigation.
Investigation of the case is in progress.