ED summons Anil Ambani, ZEE TV owner & other defaulters |
Top corporate names including Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani, Essel Group promoter Subhash Chandra, Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal and Indiabulls chairman Sameer Gehlaut have been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with its money laundering probe against Yes Bank promoter Rana Kapoor and others. Anil Ambani was asked to depose at the Enforcement Directorate office in Mumbai on Monday as his group companies are one among the big entities whose loans went bad after borrowing from the crisis-hit bank. Ambani sought exemption on health grounds from the agency and he may be issued a new date. Ambani`s group companies are stated to have taken loans of about Rs 12,800 crore from the bank that turned Non Performing Asset. Naresh Goyal and Subhash Chandra were summoned by ED for questioning on March 18 in connection with the money laundering case Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said in a March 6th press conference that the Anil Ambani Group, Essel, ILFS, DHFL and Vodafone were among the stressed corporates, Yes Bank had exposure to. Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor, is presently in ED custody after he was arrested by the central probe agency earlier this month.
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