After ₹232 Cr Scam, AAI Manager Faces CBI Heat for Diverting ₹18 Cr to Personal Accounts

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has once again brought serious allegations against an official of the Airport Authority of India (AAI). In its latest move, the CBI has registered a fresh First Information Report (FIR) against Rahul Vijay, who is currently serving as a Senior Manager at Jaipur Airport. According to the investigative agency, Rahul Vijay is accused of siphoning off ₹18.12 crore into his personal bank accounts over the past one year. This alleged misappropriation adds to his already tainted record and further deepens the concerns about corruption within the financial operations of AAI.

The CBI stated that during his tenure at Jaipur Airport, Vijay misused his official position to divert large sums of money that should have been part of AAI’s official accounts and revenues. Instead, he allegedly transferred these funds into his personal bank accounts, thereby committing a serious financial offence. The agency has filed the FIR under sections relating to criminal breach of trust, cheating, and corruption under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

This is not the first time that Rahul Vijay has come under the scanner of the CBI. Earlier, he was arrested in connection with a massive ₹232-crore embezzlement case. That case pertained to his tenure as the head of finance and accounts at AAI’s Dehradun Airport between 2019 and 2023. According to the CBI’s findings in that case, Vijay was instrumental in orchestrating large-scale financial irregularities, wherein funds belonging to AAI were systematically siphoned off and misused.

The earlier case had already shocked the aviation sector, as the scale of misappropriation was unprecedented within the operations of the Airport Authority of India. Vijay’s alleged role in the ₹232-crore scam had raised serious questions about internal audit mechanisms, oversight, and financial accountability within the organization. Now, with the registration of this new FIR for the Jaipur Airport case, the suspicions of systemic loopholes and repeated failures in preventing such misconduct have only grown stronger.

According to CBI officials, the latest case highlights the continuity of corrupt practices by the accused. Despite being under investigation for a major scam earlier, Vijay allegedly continued to misuse his position at Jaipur, showing a pattern of fraudulent behavior. The agency pointed out that such repeated misconduct suggests not only individual wrongdoing but also institutional weaknesses in monitoring high-level financial officials.

The CBI’s move to register a fresh FIR also underscores the seriousness with which the agency is pursuing financial irregularities in public sector organizations. It is expected that further investigations will reveal how Vijay managed to bypass scrutiny and whether other officials or staff were complicit in enabling these diversions.

The cumulative allegations — first of ₹232 crore at Dehradun and now of ₹18.12 crore at Jaipur — make Rahul Vijay one of the most high-profile accused in recent financial fraud cases involving the Airport Authority of India. The development has once again placed AAI under the spotlight, raising urgent demands for stronger financial checks, real-time audits, and stricter accountability frameworks to ensure that such large-scale corruption does not recur in the future.