Corruption in offices of Official Liquidators
Rule 38. Unless the Court shall otherwise direct, the Liquidator, as soon as he takes over charge, shall make a list of all the property (moveable as well as immovable) belonging to the company, in duplicate, which shall be signed by two or more past officers of the company as well as the Liquidator who shall file one copy of the list with the Court.
2. Later even inventoried assets are stolen in league with others in all thousands of companies in Liquidation. FIRs lodged against unknown persons. No arrests no recovery.
3. Official liquidators makes payments in names of security guards who have never been born. Enquiry was conducted only in one case of claim of Rs 1.5 crores in PNFC (CP 53/2012) and claim was found to be fake, A perusal of Bank accounts of security guards in three companies evidenced them to be fake. All payments are;-
i) Withdrawn by self cheques (taken in advance by security agency)
ii) Withdrawal is soon after or on the day of deposit.
iii) No other transactions.
4. Repeated valuation of same property in all thousands of companies in liquidation under different norms i.e. replacement value, cost value, Written down value and sometimes distress sale value is adopted to show such valuations to different persons to extract underhand pecuniary advantage. Norms regarding fee to valuer never adhered.
5. Sales in all cases are at under valuations. Mentioning of reserve price was must. Till end of 2013 Sales were conducted without mentioning reserve price. Intentionally valuations are not placed on record. Difference between valuations and sale price is amount of misappropriation. more