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Farmhouse, 170-acre Park: Mehul Choksi’s Assets Worth 1,271 Crores Seized
Mehul Choksi, celebrity jeweller Nirav Modi and others are being investigated in bank fraud case.
“The total value of the 41 seized assets controlled by Choksi is estimated at Rs. 1,217.2 crore,” said the Enforcement Directorate.
Mehul Choksi, celebrity jeweller Nirav Modi and others are being investigated over allegations that they swindled PNB of over Rs. 12,000 crores by getting fake guarantees that were used to get credit from banks overseas.
Officials at a Mumbai branch of PNB, India’s second biggest government bank, have also been arrested for their role in the scam.
Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi left the country in the first week of January, before criminal cases were filed against them. The CBI filed the first case against them on February 14.
Both have denied any wrongdoing.
The Enforcement Directorate, which works under the finance ministry, is investigating if the funds cheated out of the bank were laundered and used to build illegal wealth and black or untaxed money.