Chandigarh, June 17 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday filed its first chargesheet in the alleged diversion of funds belonging to the Chandigarh Renewable Energy and Science & Technology Promotion Society (CREST) and named CREST's project director, Sukhwinder Abrol, businessman Vikram Wadhwa and 11 others in the multi-crore financial fraud.

The chargesheet, running over 240 pages, was submitted before the special CBI court in Chandigarh with 11 individuals and two shell companies named as accused. Besides Abrol and Wadhwa, the chargesheet names bankers Ribhav Rishi, Abhay Kumar and Seema Dhiman and two other unnamed bank officials and CREST accountant Sahul Kukkar.

Names of Wadhwa and Rishi have figured in other fra...