Indore police's crime branch has arrested another person in the Navy fake bills scam from Gujarat.
"We arrested Ambaram Choudhary (47) who was absconding for the last 75 days from Surat yesterday," additional superintendent of police Vinayprakash Paul today said here.
Ambaram is the brother-in-law of the retired Navy storekeeper Rajkumar Choudhary, arrested earlier.
Before Ambaram, 11 persons have been arrested in the case. They include Rajkumar, four officers of the Navy's Account Department at Karwar in Karnataka, and the Indore-based chartered Accountant Ramratan Singhal.
According to the ASP, Rajkumar had transferred Rs 4.82 lakh in Ambaram's bank account, proceeds of the crime, in October 2014. Police recovered this money from Ambaram's possession yesterday.
Some officials of the Karnataka-based Principal Controllers of Defence Accounts (PCDA) are accused of clearing the fake bills related to electrical purchases of Navy, and depositing the money -- over Rs six crore -- in two bank accounts here between July and October 2014.
The money was later withdrawn by the accused.
