New Delhi: The CBI has arrested two employees of the cash department of the Reserve Bank of India in Bengaluru in connection with the alleged conversion of Rs 1.99 crore of demonetised currency into specified bank notes of Rs 2,000 and Rs 100.
Both the accused have been sent to four days of CBI custody by a special court in Bengaluru, they said.
She said in furtherance with the criminal conspiracy, the accused, along with other unknown officials, who were entrusted with the responsibility of new currency notes, "fraudulently" gave away new notes to the tune of Rs 1.99 crore to RBI officials and others.
It is alleged that the exchange was done in violation of exchange limits imposed by the Bankers' Bank. CBI had earlier arrested another employee of RBI in a separate case in which currency worth over Rs six lakh was converted by him using his influence over officials of State Bank of Mysore.
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