Friday 14 December 2018

ED attaches assets worth Rs. 73.26 Crores of M/s REI Agro Ltd. in Bank fraud case

Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached movable and immovable property worth  Rs. 73.26 Crore of M/s REI Agro Ltd and the beneficiary owners, in connection with bank fraud case initiated based on the FIR registered by CBI on 26.10.2015 for de-frauding Consortium of Banks to the tune of Rs. 3871.71 Crores.

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PMLA Investigation revealed that M/s REI Agro Ltd. and its directors, Sh. Sandip Jhunjhunwala (beneficiary owner) and others, have diverted funds sanctioned as working capital loan by 14 banks under consortium led by UCO Bank by raising bogus/fake bills, investing in M/s Varrsana Ispat Pvt. Ltd. directly and through controlled companies, settling of higher amount of Capex advances given to various shell companies by way of arbitration at a very low amount, showing higher cost of construction and arranging fake purchase/sale bills  etc.

Investigation further revealed that M/s REI Agro Ltd. And its directors, Sh. Sandip Jhunjhunwala (beneficiary owner) and others, were engaged in arranging false purchase/sales of invoices of rice and paddy through brokers/dealers of Delhi for availing maximum working capital limits from the consortium banks and diverted working limits for capital expenditure. Sh. Sandip Jhunjhunwala has illegitimately diverted the funds to the tune of more than Rs. 600 Crore through Kolkata based shell companies to the accounts of Associates Companies or Companies controlled by him using banking channels, later on, part of the above amount approx. Rs. 300 Crore was settled through arbitration against taking over of land valued approx. Rs. 22 Crore. He also arranged fake bills of Iron and Steel to the tune of more than Rs. 25 Crore and shown it as capital expenditure but received back this amount in Cash.

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The property under present attachment includes 537 hectares (approx.) of agriculture land at Bikaner, Rajasthan, portion of immovable property owned in M/s Graintech India Ltd., Budhewal, Ludhiana, land and four wind turbines erected on it at Tehsil Sakri, Distt. Dhule, Maharashtra apart from movable properties in the form of shares, mutual funds and bank deposits.

Earlier ED had provisionally attached properties of M/s REI Agro Ltd. in the form of land located at Sonipat of M/s Varrsana Ispat Pvt. Ltd. in the form of machinery and equipments, land and buildings located at Kutch, Gujarat, of M/s Quick Connect Dot Com and its director located at Sainik Farm, New Delhi, totaling worth Rs. 511.48 Crore (approx).

The total attachments in this case stand as Rs. 584.74 Crore (approx). Sandip Jhunjhunwala, Managing Director, M/s REI Agro Ltd. was arrested under section 19(1) of PMLA, 2002 for his involvement in Money Laundering.

Further investigation is under progress.

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