Navneet Rana got Rs 80 lakh loan from film financier Lakdawala, claims Raut

 

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut has asserted that free parliamentarian Navneet Rana got a credit of Rs 80 lakh from movie lender and manufacturer Yusuf Lakdawala, who was captured in a tax evasion case by the Enforcement Directorate, and looked for a test into it by the focal office.

Lakdawala passed on at the Arthur Road prison here in September last year.

Conversing with correspondents on Wednesday, Raut likewise contemplated whether there was an "hidden world association" to the political column over recitation of Hanuman Chalisa, very much like the 1993 Mumbai sequential impacts.

He asserted the BJP was attempting to save Navneet Rana, who was captured by the Mumbai police on Saturday alongside her MLA spouse Ravi Rana, after the couple gave a call to discuss the Hanuman Chalisa (songs devoted to Lord Hanuman) outside Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's private home 'Matoshree' in Bandra region here.

The Ranas in the end dropped their arrangement, yet were captured by the police and booked under different areas of the IPC, including those connected with dissidence and advancing animosity between various gatherings....KNOW MORE

Former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar skips ED date; to be summoned again

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Former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar Monday skipped her scheduled appearance before the ED in a money laundering case probe, citing bad health, officials said.
The probe involves the bank and the Videocon group.Chanda Kochhar will now be asked to depose later this week. She had not appeared before the agency even last week citing health reasons.
Official sources had told PTI earlier this week that the central probe agency is now mulling to call some more bank officials to confront them with the statements made by Chanda Kochhar and obtain further leads.The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had last month questioned and recorded the statements of Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar over multiple sessions.
The agency is also preparing to analyse the details of assets of the Kochhars and others so that they can be provisionally attached under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).Chanda Kochhar's brother-in-law and Deepak's brother, Rajiv Kochhar, has also been grilled by the ED multiple times in the case.
The Kochhar couple have been questioned in the past too at the ED's zonal office in Mumbai after the central agency conducted raids on March 1.The searches were conducted at the premises of Chanda Kochhar, her family and Venugopal Dhoot of Videocon Group in Maharashtra's Mumbai and Aurangabad.

 The ED registered a criminal case under the PMLA earlier this year against Chanda Kochhar, Deepak Kochhar, Dhoot and others to probe alleged irregularities and corrupt practices in sanctioning Rs 1,875-crore of loans by ICICI Bank to the corporate group.This action of the agency was based on an FIR registered by the CBI.

IL&FS crisis: ED files PMLA case, conducts raids in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids on at least six locations in Mumbai and Delhi-NCR region in connection with the multi-crore IL&FS payment default crisis, officials said.

They said the action by the central probe agency came after it registered a criminal complaint under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in the alleged payment default case and searches were being conducted at the residential locations of executives linked to the Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (ILFS) including its former chairman Ravi Parthasarathy and few others.
The raids are on in Mumbai and locations in Delhi and the national capital region (NCR) including Gurugram, they said.

Officials added that the investigators are looking at collecting additional evidences and documents apart from what they have obtained till now as part of the probe.

The debt crisis at the infrastructure lender came to light following a series of defaults by its group companies beginning September, 2018.

IL&FS has defaulted on payment of loans to SIDBI and along with its subsidiaries has a combined debt of over Rs 91,000 crore.

The ED's case is based on an FIR filed before the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Delhi Police in December last year.


 Ashish Begwani, Director of Enso Infrastructures (P) Ltd, had filed the case against officials of IL&FS Rail Ltd for allegedly causing Rs 70 crore loss to his company by fraudulent means.