{"id":51912,"date":"2019-01-06T09:53:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T09:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=51912"},"modified":"2019-01-06T09:53:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T09:53:20","slug":"ed-attaches-thailand-factory-of-choksis-group-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/ed-attaches-thailand-factory-of-choksis-group-company\/","title":{"rendered":"ED attaches Thailand factory of Choksi\u2019s group company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Enforcement Directorate on Friday said it has attached a factory in Thailand worth over Rs 13 crore of a Gitanjali group company, owned by absconding diamond jeweller Mehul Choksi, in connection with the alleged USD 2 billion PNB fraud case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring probe, this overseas property has been identified and after gathering concrete evidence of ownership it has been attached,\u201d the ED said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said ED investigators will soon get issued Letters Rogatories for legal formalisation of the attachment of the foreign based asset.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said it has issued a provisional order for attachment, under the PMLA, of the factory premise owned by Abbeycrest Limited which is a \u201cgroup company\u201d of the Gitanjali group of companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigations under PMLA revealed that Abbeycrest Limited is the beneficiary of the LoUs issued fraudulently and unauthorisedly from the PNB to the tune of Rs 92.3 crore.<\/p>\n<p>Choksi, his nephew and diamond jeweller Nirav Modi, and others are being probed under various criminal laws after the fraud came to light, following a complaint from the Punjab National Bank that they allegedly cheated the nationalised bank to the tune of over Rs 13,000 crore, with the purported involvement of some of its employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enforcement Directorate on Friday said it has attached a factory in Thailand worth over Rs 13 crore of a Gitanjali group company, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51912","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\/51912","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=51912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51914,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51912\/revisions\/51914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}