Mumbai: The CBI has registered a case against Machindra Bamne, an official of Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), and his wife in a case of amassing assets disproportionate to their known sources of income after examining their documents recovered in a three-year-old case.In 2023, the agency had registered a corruption case against Bamne, along with 13 employees of grounded Jet Airways, who allegedly paid bribes to him to clear their pending dues. The CBI had then recovered property-related documents during searches at his premises.Bamne joined the EPFO under sports quota in 2001, and worked in the Kandivli office from 2012 before his transfer to Mangaluru. CBI said his wife earlier worked as a receptionist and then a senior executive in a pharma company.In the DA case, the CBI alleged that between 2012 and 2022, Bamne amassed assets more than known source of income. Officials claimed that till 2012, he had assets of Rs 24.9 lakh and in 2022, his total assets touched Rs 1.56 crore, which the CBI found was Rs 61.5 lakh more than his known source of income.Bamne is already facing two separate CBI cases against him related to corruption. In one of the cases, the agency alleged that he accepted a Rs 1.77 lakh bribe from the 13 Jet Airways employees in his wife’s account to clear their dues. The CBI said it found that Bamne had eight bank accounts in his name or along with his wife, and only five of them were declared to the department. During the inquiry, the team found several suspicious transactions into these accounts, including Rs 66 lakh FD.The agency further said Bamne received Rs 2.9 lakh from a sports complex at Goregaon and claimed that it was his fees for cricket coaching.
