Moitrish Majumdar, Kolkata:
Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Chanda Kochhar and his husband Deepak Kochhar, former CEO of ICICI Bank, in a money laundering case related to bank loan fraud, seeking a response. The former CEO of ICICI Bank will have to answer in the next week.
According to ED officials, Chanda Kochhar has been summoned on May 3. Chanda Kochhar's husband Deepak and his brother Rajiv were asked to appear before the investigating officer on April 30. They have also been asked to file a statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Apart from this, it has been said to bring some documents related to personal and official financial information. The ED official said that summons were sent to Chanda Kochhar and others, including last week.
Officials said that this step has been taken by the investigating officer to carry forward the investigation. Explain that after raids on March 1 in the bank loan case, the Enforcement Directorate had questioned Chanda Kochhar and her husband at the ED office in Mumbai. ED raided Chanda Kochhar, his family and Venugopal Dhoot of Videocon Group on Mumbai and Aurangabad bases.
ED filed criminal case under PMLA for investigation of alleged irregularities and corruption in the case of grant of loan of Rs 1,875 crore to Videocon group by ICICI against Chanda Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar, Dhoot and others in the beginning of this year. did. Earlier, in October 2018, Chanda Kochhar quit the post of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director (MD) of ICICI Bank.
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