The white-collar accused involved in multi-crore Provident Fund scam of Jet Airways have made a low-ranking Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) employee a scapegoat in order to cover their tracks, believe international pilots who worked for the grounded airline. According to them, it’s impossible for a junior employee to have single-handedly pulled off the massive fraud.

Speaking about the FIR that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered against EPFO employee Machindra Bamne, his wife Rupali and 13 Jet employees on July 11, a former Jet pilot from Panama told mid-day, “Senior officials have made a junior EPFO employee a scapegoat to safeguard themselves. It’s impossible to digest the claim that a junior EPFO employee can manage this unforgivable scam, which has directly affected our families. The scamsters are still trying to hide the evidence. We will fight till we get justice.”