The Enforcement Directorate, Mumbai, has successfully handed over properties worth more than Rs 125 crore to the liquidator of Gitanjali Gems Ltd. Following an application supported by the ED, the Special PMLA Court in Mumbai approved the monetisation of properties worth Rs 2,565.90 crore linked to Mehul Choksi. PROPERTIES HANDED OVER As per the court’s order, ED initiated the transfer …
The Karnataka government has ordered all its departments, boards, corporations, public sector units and universities to withdraw all their deposits and investments in the State Bank of India and the Punjab National Bank and stop transacting any business with these institutions. ₹ 10 crore deposited by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board was not returned by the bank owing to …
The Enforcement Directorate has filed a chargesheet against fugitive diamentaire Mehul Choksi, his wife Priti and others in connection with the Rs 13,000 crore Punjab National Bank fraud case. In June 2021, India Today ran an exclusive report on how Priti Choksi was also a major beneficiary of the proceeds of crime in the PNB scam. In 2013, Priti, along …
The Delhi High Court Friday dismissed a plea by Mehul Choksi, an accused in the nearly USD 2 billion PNB scam, to conduct pre-screening of documentary series, Bad Boy Billionaires. Senior advocates Neeraj Kishan Kaul and Dayan Krishnan, representing the OTT platform, argued that Choksi was a declared absconder and fugitive and allowing pre-screening to him will amount to "freezing …