‘Investigators have prima facie found that all the cases relate to filing of false compensation claims’.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has started uncovering layers of a conspiracy and money trail in an alleged multi-crore rupee scam in Odisha involving fake motor vehicle or accident insurance claim racket by launching a hunt for those involved in 34 cases. The motor insurance cases, filed to collect third-party accident claims worth Rs 5 crore from a private insurance company, were linked to 30 accident and rash driving FIRs filed across the state. The CBI is also verifying the insurance company’s allegation that the accused adopted the modus operandi involving fabricated medical documents for claiming compensation, fraudulent implantation of vehicle, claimant implantation or false implantation of the driver.
The High Court of Orissa, Cuttack, had earlier taken note of the “scale, magnitude and complexity” of the crime and directed the state police to hand over the investigation to the CBI. “The CBI is well equipped with the requisite skill to unearth the conspiracy and money trailing aspect of the crime,” said the High Court.
Sources said investigators have prima facie found that all the cases relate to filing of false compensation claim cases by claimants either under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 or under the Employees’ Compensation Act, 1923.
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