Rs 5,000 crore bank fraud case: CBI asks Interpol Nigeria to help trace Nitin and Chetan Sandesara
Business | September 25, 2018 21:27 ISTAccording to the agency source, the CBI wrote to the Interpol in Nigeria late on Monday.
According to the agency source, the CBI wrote to the Interpol in Nigeria late on Monday.
Sandesara is absconding. He is a director of a Gujarat-based pharma company Sterling Biotech. The company is being probed in a Rs 5,000 crore bank fraud case.
It is stated that the CVC has sought for certain case files from the CBI on the basis of a complaint filed by its Special Director.
News agency PTI has learnt that there was no court order on extradition of Michel to India as reported.
In the letters sent to the companies, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has sought the details of data collection exercise adapted by them.
The accusations were made on Yadav and IRCTC officials for granting sub-lease right of two railway hotels at Puri and Ranchi to Sujata Hotel Pvt Ltd, owned by Vinay and Vijay Kochhar.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said it had received a complaint against beleaguered diamantaire Modi and his uncle Choksi from the bank almost a month after they had fled the country.
Searches are being conducted in the office and residential premises of the accused, said an official.
The LoC depends on the issuing authority and, unless it asks the BoI to detain a person or to stop him from boarding a plane, no action is taken.
The high court had alleged the involvement of officials from the forest department in the poaching of big cats, which will also be probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The residences of Health Minister C Vijayabaskar and DGP TK Rajendran, besides that of a former senior police official, among others are being searched, said officials.
The CBI's submission came during hearing on a 2016 plea by Ahmed's mother seeking directions to the police, which was earlier probing the case, to trace her son who has been missing since October of that year.
The Congress leader in an application levied allegations that the CBI only wanted media trial and was not interested in a fair probe.
The agency has communicated to the ministry that it has already written to its counterpart agency in Antigua for the provisional arrest of Choksi, who is the alleged mastermind of the over 2 billion USD bank fraud in the Punjab National Bank.
The Jharkhand High Court had on Friday refused to extend the provisional bail of the former Bihar chief minister and asked him to surrender by August 30 before the CBI court.
Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi are being investigated by the ED and the CBI after it was detected that they allegedly cheated PNB of more than Rs 13,400 crore with the purported involvement of a few of its employees.
Andure was believed to be one of the shooters who fired at Dabholkar while he was on a morning walk on the Onkareshwar Bridge in Pune on August 20, 2013, the CBI spokesperson said.
Dabholkar was shot and killed by two motorcycle-borne assailants near Omkareshwar Temple in Pune.
The CBI is understood to have been looking at various angles, which include sexual abuse of inmates at the Muzaffarpur shelter home, misuse of public funds allocated to an NGO controlled by Thakur, and the alleged links of high-profile people with the prime accused.
“Under ADG Crime a SIT is being set up,” Adityanath said.
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