CBI probing another Rs 5,280 crore loan taken by Mehul Choksi, companies
12 April 2018 5:08 AM IST
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday said that it is probing another loan worth Rs 5,280 crore taken by Mehul Choksi and his companies from a consortium of 31 banks led by ICICI Bank. The probe is part of the existing FIR filed against Choksi and his Gitanjali Group, CBI added.
However, the probe is different from the Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud already unearthed, the investigative agency said.
In a separate development, CBI has questioned two officials of Canara Bank (Bahrain branch) and one Bank of India (BoI) official of Antwerp (Belgium) in the PNB scam, news agency ANI reported.
The two diamond merchants (Nirav Modi and Choksi) are accused of availing credit from overseas banks using fraudulent guarantees made in collusion with PNB employees in what is regarded as the biggest fraud in the Indian banking system.
Both the businessmen left the country with their families in the first week of January this year.
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