Mettu Venkateshwarlu, a for Amazon India employee, has been arrested for misappropriation of funds, forgery and cheating in the name of “clearing full and final settlement of due amounts of inactive/ex-employees” at Amazon Development Centre (India).
After that, Ankur Sharma who is the Senior Law Enforcement Response Specialist with Amazon Development Centre (India), Gachibowli reported a case based on which Mettu Venkateshwarlu was apprehended.
Moreover from 2016 to 2023, he fraudulently funneled ₹3.22 crore into 50 bank accounts of his accomplices in relation to 203 such cases of misuse, diversion and misappropriation depriving 184 ex-employees/inactive employees whose liabilities remain unsorted. This happened after he voluntarily resigned on October 31st ,2023 but it was not until April 3rd when it was referred to the police authorities.
This involved both former or inactive employees including consolidation processing for all areas that constituted termination process for Amazon India employees which include those belonging to either previous or current workers.
“He used to choose certain unclaimed long outstanding payments and made up working files – bank transfers. He changed account numbers before crores of rupees were remitted into them,” said an official.
