Aizawl, Mar 26 (Reporter) Mizoram government, at the instance of the state Lokayukta, has given consent to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the alleged bank fraud involving over Rs 20 crore at the Mizoram-Myanmar border Champhai branch of Mizoram Rural Bank. The First Information Report (FIR) was submitted at the Champhai Police Station in early August 2022 and was investigated. The FIR alleged that 1,290 people availed of a loan to the tune of Rs. 20.64 crore between March and October 2021 from the KCC account of the Champhai MRB Branch and the whole amount, credited to individual accounts was later transferred to a savings bank account opened by a group. The savings bank account was operated directly or indirectly by Lucas Thangmangliana, PS Zatluanga, T Paulamthanga, Tuangzapauva, and Jacob Thanglianchina, all of them residents of Champhai town, Chairman of MRB said. One of the savings bank account holders Lucas Thangmangliana has been under the radar of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the ED officials had raided Thangmangliana’s home in Champhai town in early March 2022 only to find that he had already fled to Myanmar where two of his brothers were residing. Thangmangliana was one of the accused persons and Hyderabad-based Nay La Family Exports Pvt. Ltd., promoted by Ibrahim Patel in human hair smuggling from Hyderabad to China via Mizoram and Myanmar as well as money laundering and hawala operations. The ED officials also then raided St. Mary’s Gem Industries and Sun Moon Human Hair in Champhai and Thari Enterprises in Aizawl. While the state police had already submitted a charge sheet to the district court in September last year, the case was handed over to the CBI as the bank has guidelines that require financial frauds such as this to be investigated by the CBI. Reports, however, said that the CBI is yet to respond to the letter from the state government...////...