Venugopal Dhoot News
On August 26, 2009, a Sanctioning Committee headed by Chanda Kochhar, MD sanctioned a Rupee Term Loan of Rs 300 crore to Videocon International Electronics Limited (VIEL) in contravention of rules and policies of the bank in criminal conspiracies with the co-accused persons dishonestly by abusing her official position as a public servant.
Dhoot had approached the high court on January 10 after the same bench granted bail to the Kochhars. The couple was arrested on December 23, 2022. Dhoot's advocate Sandeep Laddha had argued that Dhoot's arrest was unwarranted as he had cooperated in the probe. The CBI, however, opposed the same saying the Videocon Group founder had attempted to avoid the probe and hence the arrest was legal. The HC had heard the arguments and closed it for orders on January 13.
Dhoot was arrested by the CBI from Mumbai on Monday whereas the Kochhars were already in its custody. The federal probe agency has now got the three days custody of the accused, and will confront them with each other to make a water-tight case.
The 71-year-old Dhoot was arrested from Mumbai. The CBI will produce him before a Special CBI court in Mumbai later in the day. The probe agency will seek his custodial remand.
Special Judge A.A. Nandgaonkar granted conditional bail on a Rs 5 lakh bond to Venugopal Dhoot
Dhoot also claimed that neither he nor his family has benefitted through the alleged crimes they are charged with
On January 30, the special court had issued summons to Dhoot
Kochhar charged under PMLA.
ED arrested Deepak Kochhar in September 2020.
Criminal case for money laundering.
Videocon did not inform the consortium that it was continuing to avail loan from the SCB and the lenders also did not ask for NOC from SCB about the closure.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) here on Saturday questioned former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar and Videocon Group promoter Venugopal Dhoot in connection with an ongoing probe into the alleged irregularities and corrupt practices in sanctioning a Rs 1,875 crore loan by the bank to Videocon Group.
The Directorate had on Friday carried out raids in at least five office and residential premises in Mumbai and a few other locations linked to Kochhar and Dhoot.
They said the raids are being carried out in at least five office and residential premises in Mumbai and a few other locations.
It was alleged that Videocon Group pumped money into NuPower Renewables, a firm owned by Deepak Kochhar, husband of Chanda Kochhar.
Sentiment was also negative after the central bank fined the country`s largest private-sector lender 589 million rupees ($9.05 million) for not sticking to certain rules about sale of government securities.
A 52-year-old Delhi-based Nigerian has been arrested on charges of cheating a local businessman of Rs.4.25 lakh by promising his son a position on the FC Goa football team, Goa Police said on Sunday.
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