ICICI Bank-Videocon Case: ED Raids Offices, Residences Of Chanda Kochhar, Others
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday carried out searches against former ICICI Bank Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Chanda Kochhar and Videocon Industries Ltd. Promoter Venugopal Dhoot in connection with a bank loan fraud case, officials said.
They said the raids are being carried out in at least five offices and residential premises in Mumbai and a few other locations.
The agency had registered a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act earlier this month against Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar, Dhoot and others to probe alleged irregularities and corrupt practices in sanctioning of Rs 1,875-crore loans by the ICICI Bank to the corporate group. A team of ED sleuths, assisted by the police, is looking for more evidence in the case and the raids were launched early Friday morning, officials said.
The directorate's case was filed after taking cognisance of a Central Bureau of Investigation complaint lodged in the matter last month. The CBI had named Chanda Kochhar, Deepak Kochhar, and Dhoot and his companies—Videocon International Electronics Ltd. and Videocon Industries Limited.
The central probe agency also named Supreme Energy, a company founded by Dhoot, and Nupower Renewables, a company controlled by Deepak Kochhar, in the first information report. It's alleged that Dhoot had invested in Deepak Kochhar's company Nupower through his firm Supreme Energy as a quid pro quo to loans cleared by ICICI Bank after Chanda Kochhar took over as the chief executive officer of the bank on May 1, 2009.
The ownership of Nupower and Supreme Energy changed hands through a complex web of shared transactions between Deepak Kochhar and Dhoot, the CBI alleged.
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