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Double-barrelled probe ordered in Jet airways PF scam
Updated On: 24 August, 2022 07:43 AM IST | Mumbai | Diwakar Sharma
Chief vigilance officer initiates departmental probe, while member of Central Board of Trustees pulls up local PF commissioner for evading questions, following this paper’s exposé of what could be a scandal running into hundreds of crores

EPFO’s office at Kandivli West that is mired in controversy. Pic/Nimesh Dave
The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation has called the chief of its Kandivli office to Delhi after mid-day exposed an alleged multi-crore scam involving fraudulent settlement of PF dues of Jet Airways employees, particularly expat pilots. Sudhir Ganvir, regional provident fund commissioner, RO, Kandivli, is not cooperating with EPFO’s vigilance officers, Central Board of Trustees member Prabhakar Banasure told mid-day. On August 18, the Kandivli office suspended an official for taking bribes to settle PF dues of Jet staffers.
See, there were nearly 400 International workers including pilots and crew members at Jet Airways. But Ganvir is not cooperating with the vigilance officers and he is divulging the details of only seven to eight international workers. The exact amount of scam can be ascertained only after forensic audits of the PF accounts of all the international workers are conducted… but it’s a huge huge matter…,” Banasure told mid-day.
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