5,600CR SCAM
Mateen Hafeez TNN
Mumbai:
The Mumbai police’s economic offences wing (EOW), which is probing the
Rs 5,600-crore NSEL fraud case, has found that some defaulters had
diverted money made from NSEL trading to buy companies abroad but the
funds transfers were not always legal. For instance, Aastha Minmet, a
sister concern of Juggernaut, invested about Rs 8.3 crore in a Singapore
firm, Akshaj Ventures.
“We have come across several defaulter
firms that have invested money in buying companies abroad. We don’t want
to share all the details of our probe at this stage. There are clear
indications of hawala in some cases and we are in touch with the
Enforcement Directorate (ED),” said Rajvardhan Sinha, additional commissioner of police, EOW.
Meanwhile, the EOW on Friday questioned B G Pawar, an accused in the NSEL scam, Mohit Aggarwal of Juggernaut, some directors of Kasturi and ARK Imports. “We are questioning them about the land, plants & machinery bought by their companies and several other issues. We will be calling some other directors on Monday,” added Sinha.
He
said that the arrested accused and former NSEL office bearer Anjani
Sinha had made more than Rs 70 crore. Anjani Sinha is said to have a
large investment in real estate. “We have written to the RBI to find
out why a huge amount of money went abroad and what was the reason
given by the companies while transferring the funds,” said an officer.
The
investigating officers are also compiling the second list of properties
that are to be attached. On Thursday and Friday, the EOW sent messages
to collectors and tehsildars in various states to attach 25 properties
belonging to the defaulters. The police are also planning to make the
sixth arrest on Saturday in the NSEL fraud case. “We will pick up a
suspect on Saturday,” police sources said.
In a related
development, the Saharanpur police on Friday took the custody of two
accused, Amit Mukherjee and Anjani Sinha, and took them to Uttar
Pradesh.
The Times of India, November 9, 2013
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