Geotagged pictures with location simply 13 meters from the Chennai residence of Anand Subramanian, the previous Group Operating Officer of the National Stock Exchange (NSE), a resort reserving by the “Himalayan Yogi” for which funds have been made by Subramanian, e mail attachments of the “Yogi” modified by Subramanian minutes earlier than they have been despatched, and similarity of phrases utilized in communications by the “Yogi” and Subramanian.
This is among the proof that an Ernst & Young investigation has cited to point that the paranormal “Himalayan Yogi” to whom former NSE MD and CEO Chitra Ramkrishna is alleged to have leaked confidential market data was none aside from Subramanian.
On Thursday, Subramanian was arrested by the CBI in reference to a 2018 bourse manipulation case. Subramanian’s arrest got here within the wake of a Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) report which indicted Ramkrishna for appointing Subramanian as NSE Group Operating Officer in contravention of guidelines, and for sharing confidential NSE data with the “Himalayan Yogi”, who communicated together with her by way of e mail id rigyajursama@outlook.com.
The SEBI report additionally talked about that the E&Y investigation into the e-mail ID strongly indicated that the “Himalayan Yogi” was Subramanian himself.
The CBI, which has acquired Subramanian’s custody until March 6, is in possession of the E&Y report. It shall be verifying these findings with Subramanian within the subsequent few days.
The E&Y findings have been primarily based on an evaluation of communications between Ramakrishna, Subramanian and the “Himalayan Yogi” between January 2000 and May 2018. Ramakrishna was MD and CEO of the NSE from April 2013 to December 2016, and had appointed Subramanian in the identical interval .
The strongest indication that the E&Y has cited for the “Himalayan Yogi” being none aside from Subramanian is 2 geotagged pictures connected within the emails despatched utilizing id rigyajursama@outlook.com. The location of those geotagged pictures was discovered to be near Subramanian’s residence in Chennai.
According to the report, 17 emails with attachments have been analyzed by E&Y. Of these attachments, eight have been pictures. “… we observed that 2 images (corresponding to 2 emails) had been geotagged and the location appeared to be close to Subbu’s (Subramanian’s) residential address at Chennai,” the report stated.
The location captured within the picture was “53 2nd Main Road Teynampet Chennai Tamil Nadu 600018 India”. The latitude and longitude confirmed “13.03524°, 80.24791°”. The residential tackle of Subramanian – “No. 2/14, II Main Road, IInd Floor, Seethammal Colony, Extension, Opp Siet College, Teynampet, Chennai 600018 – was found to have the latitude and longitude of “13.036528, 80.253271”.
Separately, E&Y ran the identical test on two emails with picture attachments despatched by Subramanian from his official e mail ID to Ramkrishna.
“The captured location of these photographs was similar to the captured location of the photographs that were sent by Rigyajursama. The latitude and longitude of this photograph showed “13.03514, 60.24779°”. Based on public area data, the gap between the coordinates (latitude and longitude) of images despatched by Subbu (13.03514°, 80.24778°”) and Rigyajusrsama (“13.03524°, 80.24791°”) was 13 meters,” the report stated.
Another proof cited by E&Y is a resort reserving at Umaid Bhavan. On December 1, 2015, rigyajursama@outlook.com despatched an e mail to Ramkrishna (additionally marked to Subramanian) that Kanchan’s – a reference to Subramanian — vacation had been “approved and booked by ME at Umaid Bhavan”.
“As per the bank statement of Subbu, a transaction dated 27 November 2015 amounting to INR 237,984 towards “Umaid Bhawan Palace” was famous,” the report has stated.
E&Y additionally analyzed the Skype profile used on Subramanian’s NSE desktop. It was noticed that the shared desktop had consumer profile “sanand” for Subramanian. Review of the desktop knowledge pertaining to home windows profile “sanand” revealed that the Skype accounts within the title of “anand.subramanian9” and “siromani.10” have been configured within the Skype software database.
E&Y concluded that because the Skype accounts have been configured on “sanand” home windows profile, solely a consumer having data of “sanand” login credentials may have accessed these skype accounts.
“The Skype account with user profile name “sironmani.10″ was linked to email id rigyajusama@outiook.com and mobile number as +9191675774 12 (this number was assigned to Subbu by NSE),” the report stated.
E&Y additionally concluded that the language used within the Skype chats by “siromani.10” with Ramakrishna have been much like these utilized in communication from rigyajursama@outlook.com to Ramakrishna.
“On performing a search on Skype with email id “ngyajursama@outlook.com” we noticed two profiles “Rigyajusama Vel” and “Sironmani.10”. Further, on performing a search on Skype with cellphone quantity *+919167577412” a profile within the title of “Sironmani.10” was noticed,” the report has stated.
Also in a number of emails, rigyajursama@outlook.com and Subramanian use comparable phrases comparable to “toe the line” and “Ashirvadham” to Ramkrishna. In some emails – from these exterior of NSE to Subramnian – E&Y noticed he was known as “God” or “Swamy” whose blessings have been sought. In two emails, Subramanian indicated that the “Himalayan Yogi” had met two NSE workers. However, these workers stated they’d met no different particular person than Subramnian and Ramkrishna within the context of these conferences.
The evaluation of 9 emails despatched by rigyajursama@outlook.com that had phrase/excel paperwork as attachments revealed that eight of those had been “last modified by” Subramnian or he was the “author”.
“Further, primarily based on the ‘final modified’ date/ time and the corresponding e mail despatched date/ time, we famous that there have been 5 emails that have been despatched inside 5 minutes of the ‘final modified’ time. (One e mail was additionally despatched inside a minute of the ‘final modified’ time),” the report stated.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
