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Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday sealed the Brady House Branch of the Punjab National Bank in Mumbai as multiple probe agencies continue their probe into the Rs 11 515 crore fraud according to officials.The CBI pasted an official notice outside the branch in Fort -- the bank s flagship lending window in Mumbai and its second largest national outlet.All have been barred from opening or entering inside this branch without prior permission of the CBI or the CBI Special Court or the CBI Competent Authority.Accordingly all operations at the Brady House Branch came to a grinding halt and several bewildered staffers were seen waiting outside it for further orders from their bosses.The action came two days after the Special CBI Court in Mumbai remanded to police custody till March 3 three accused in the PNB fraud including two former staffers.The accused includes retired PNB Deputy Manager Gokulnath Shetty Single Window Operator Manoj Kharat and authorized signatory of the prime accused Nirav Modi s group companies Hemant Bhatt.The three were the very first arrests to be in the sensational case so far by the CBI from different parts of Mumbai and Raigad. More arrests are expected soon officials have indicated.Besides these the CBI earlier named 10 other directors and officials as accused in the scam which has created a nationwide furore.The prime accused diamond trader Nirav Modi and other associates fled the country in early January before the massive financial fraud came to light. CommentsClose X The multi-pronged action by the CBI Enforcement Directorate and others comes five days after PNB admitted to unearthing a fraud amounting to Rs 11 515 crore involving Mr Modi s companies and certain other accounts in the Brady House Branch.The fraud which includes money-laundering among others concerns the Firestar Diamonds group in which the CBI last week booked Nirav Modi his wife Ami brother Nishal Modi and Mehul Choksi.
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Rotomac owner Vikram Kothari and his son Rahul Kothari in the alleged loan default to the tune of Rs 3 695 crore. The CBI officials said that Vikram Kothari and his son who were called for questioning were arrested after they failed to cooperate with the investigation. Vikram Kothari his son Rahul Kothari and wife Sadhana Kothari are directors of the Rotomac Global Pvt Ltd. The CBI had registered a complaint against Kothario on February 18 based on the complaint filed by the Bank of Baroda which is one of the banks in a consortium that extended loans to the Vikram Kothari-led Rotomac group. Bank of Baroda filed a compliant against Kothari fearing he might flee the country. The Kotharis allegedly owe an amount of Rs 3 695 crore to a consortium of banks which includes principla along with interest and liabilities. The CBI action against the Kotharis comes at a time when the agency is investigating the Rs11 400 crore PNB bank fraud in which fraudulent Letters of Undertaking were extended to diamond merchant Nirav Modi-led group of companies. (With inputs from PTI)
MUMBAI: Bank of Baroda (BoB) has denied the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) assertion that it had not acted in time in the Rotomac fraud. The bank has said that it spent months in legal battles to declare the borrower a wilful defaulter and in investigations to establish fraud. The CBI had alleged that the lender which had an exposure of Rs 435 crore to the Vikram Kothari-promoted Rotomac Global waited for two years after declaring the account a non-performing asset (NPA) before it approached the agency with a criminal complaint. The CBI said that BoB had filed a first information report (FIR) on Sunday only after the Nirav Modi swindle came to light. BoB MD P S Jayakumar said The process of declaring an account as fraud requires forensic audit and a strong proof. Therefore the statement that we waited for two years from the date of loan becoming an NPA to lodge a complaint of fraud with the CBI is not true. He also said that the process of initiating a criminal complaint against the borrower had started before the Nirav Modi fraud came to light. Public sector banks have collectively lent Rs 2 919 crore to the Rotomac group with Bank of India as the lead lender. Other large lenders are Indian Overseas Bank Union Bank of India Allahabad Bank Oriental Bank of Commerce and Bank of Maharashtra besides BoB. While BoB declared the company an NPA in February 2016 the account was not an NPA with other lenders as the borrower was repaying only some banks. It was only after a lenders meeting in June last year that Bank of India filed a suit in the Debt Recovery Tribunal - Allahabad and initiated the process of declaring the borrower company directors and guarantors as wilful defaulters. Jayakumar said A wilful defaulter is someone who has sources of funds to repay a loan but does not. A borrower who had provided personal guarantee but had two businesses one of which he is losing money while the other venture is profitable will be an example of a wilful defaulter.
ALSO READ CBI arrests ITDC official in bribery case Rotomac case: IT dept. attaches 14 bank accounts India Tourism Development Corporation standalone net profit rises 54.50% in the December 2017 quarter Illegal confinement of girls:HC seeks CBI s reply on parents plea Tourism ministry to host cultural gala to mark R-Day span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday arrested a senior manager of India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 60 000.It was alleged that the senior manager had demanded the bribe to clear pending bills of Rs 20 lakh of a contractor. CBI laid a trap and caught the accused red-handed while demanding and accepting the bribe of Rs. 60 000 from the complainant. Soon after that searches were conducted at the premises of the accused an agency spokesperson said.The accused was produced before the designated court in Delhi earlier today.Further investigation is underway.(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday criticised the Central Bureau of Investigation for not helping it enough to understand the agency s case against the accused in the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh.Since February 9 the court has been hearing petitions filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation and Sheikh s brother against the discharge of several police officers in the 2005 case. It is the primary duty of a prosecuting agency to place all evidence on record before the court Justice Revati Mohite-Dere said according to PTI. However in this case despite the court s repeated queries the CBI has chosen to argue only on the role of the two officials whose discharge it has challenged. Without the CBI s assistance the bench is still unclear on the prosecution s overall case the judge said. The court has now asked the agency to submit details of all the witnesses statements in the case.On February 12 as well the bench had rebuked the CBI for witnesses turning hostile. It had asked the agency to specify the measures it was taking to protect witnesses. Some of them have turned hostile Justice Revati Mohite-Dere had said. Is this the seriousness with which CBI is conducting the trial? The CBI has filed two petitions challenging the discharge of Dalpat Singh Rathod a constable with the Rajasthan police and NK Amin who was with the Gujarat Police. Sohrabuddin s brother Rubabuddin Sheikh has also filed pleas contesting the release of former Deputy Inspector-General of Gujarat DG Vanzara Rajasthan IPS officer Dinesh MN and Gujarat IPS officer Rajkumar Pandiyan.Out of 38 accused in the case 15 have been discharged including Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah. Shah was the home minister of Gujarat when Sheikh a wanted criminal and his wife Kausarbi (couple pictured above) were allegedly shot dead in police custody in November 2005.
A Special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Bhopal on Tuesday sentenced five people to seven years in jail after convicting them in connection with the Vyapam scam The Indian Express reported. This is the first conviction in cases related to the scam since the Central Bureau of Investigation took over the probe in 2015.The Vyapam scam refers to the alleged irregularities in various admission and job recruitment examinations conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board also known as Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal or Vyapam. Though FIRs in the scam had been filed from around 1995 the racket finally https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/kkpigeon came to light in May 2012 when an invigilator at a test for veterinary colleges realised that one of the candidates was not who he claimed to be. On investigation the police found a long trail of such scams spread across various districts in the state.The court on Tuesday convicted a constable from Morena district Narottam Yadav his father Bhagwan Singh Yadav and a relative Avinash Singh impersonator Rishabh Agrawal and middleman Prabhat Mehta. Agrawal impersonated Narottam Yadav at an examination centre in Madhya Pradesh s Rewa and had also tampered documents to ensure Yadav was selected and posted as a constable. Special CBI Judge SC Upadhyay also fined the accused Rs 6 500. The accused did not want to get jobs for themselves but also wanted to provide jobs to other candidates the judge said while refusing to be lenient. Had this scam continued for some more time the social fabric of the country would have been destroyed. He added: The students would have stopped studying and used their mental faculties to illegally grab the posts they wanted. In such a situation even if they accused they did not have any criminal background they don t deserve sympathy.
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