Shivraj Puri, the alleged mastermind of the 2010 Rs 400 crore Citibank scam, lodged in Bhondsi jail, has died at a Delhi hospital, officials said on Friday. He told that Puri (46) was suffering from tuberculosis (TB).
This is the third Bhondsi jail inmate to die after suffering from TB in the last 18 days, a senior official said. According to him, Puri was in jail since November 2020 in a fraud case registered at Kherki Daula police station.
He was being treated at LRS Hospital in Mehrauli. Puri died on Thursday morning around 9.30 am, the official said. Puri was arrested by the Gurugram Police from Dehradun in November 2020 in a land fraud case. He said that he has been declared a fugitive offender (PO) earlier.
Puri was first caught in 2010 in connection with the Rs 400 crore Citibank scam. Police said they were accused of making high net worth individuals and corporate entities investing and then investing money in the stock market and causing a huge loss of Rs 405.52 crore. He said that while working as a relationship manager with Citibank, Shivraj had allegedly embezzled Rs 400 crore of various customers in fake accounts.
After coming out of jail on bail in 2018, he went into hiding and cheated many more people. Police said he was declared a fugitive in 2018 and arrested in 2020. On May 2, a prisoner under the POCSO Act, Shakeel (27), a prisoner from Nuh district, died at Delhi’s LRS Hospital after suffering from tuberculosis.
Another prisoner, Sandeep alias Sonu (45), from Inchapuri village, who was convicted in a murder case in 2010, was suffering from tuberculosis, the jail official said.
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