{"id":28043,"date":"2018-04-14T12:31:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=28043"},"modified":"2018-04-14T12:31:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:31:09","slug":"bank-loan-fraud-ed-attaches-rs-375-cr-assets-of-surat-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/bank-loan-fraud-ed-attaches-rs-375-cr-assets-of-surat-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank loan fraud: ED attaches Rs 375-cr assets of Surat firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ED has attached assets worth over Rs 375 crore of a Gujarat-based firm in connection with its money laundering probe in an alleged bank loan fraud, perpetrated using fraudulent Letters of Credit of more than Rs 2,100 crore.<\/p>\n<p>The central probe agency said it has attached the plant and machinery of the firm &#8212; Ms Nakoda Limited &#8212; in Surat district of Gujarat under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).<\/p>\n<p>It said a money laundering case was registered against the firm, its CMD BabulalGumanmal Jain and his son, and joint MD Devender Babulal Jainbased on a CBI FIR.<\/p>\n<p>The assets attached are valued at Rs 375.71 crore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs Nakoda Ltd had availed fund-based and non-fund based financial assistance from the consortium of 13 banks led by Canara Bank and had defaulted on repayment of these loans to the tune of Rs 2,107 crore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigation revealed that Jain and his son entered a criminal conspiracy with others to carry out fake sale and purchases of fancy fabrics with the companies floated by Puneet Rungta and Jagdish Somani,\u201d the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>On the strength of fake purchase invoices, it said, the firm opened 816 of Letters of credit (LCs) with banks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of the total LCs fraudulently opened by the company with banks against fake purchases, 202 LCs to the tune of Rs 827.98 crore devolved due to non-payment by Ms Nakoda Limited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese fraudulently obtained LC-based funds were laundered by the company through circular transactions,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ED has attached assets worth over Rs 375 crore of a Gujarat-based firm in connection with its money laundering probe in an alleged bank loan fraud, perpetrated using fraudulent Letters of Credit of more than Rs 2,100 crore. The central probe agency said it has attached the plant and machinery of the firm &#8212; [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28045,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28043\/revisions\/28045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}