ED summons film actor Morea and DJ Aqeel

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Bollywood actor Dino Morea and a popular disc-jockey - DJ Aqeel in connection with the Rs 5,383 crore Sterling Biotech bank fraud, sources here said on Monday.

They added that the two entertainment personalities were allegedly paid some money by the Sandesara brothers with a part of the proceeds of crime.

The ED had taken up the investigation under PMLA after the CBI had registered a case in the massive bank fraud case that surfaced in the backdrop of the Nirav Modi-Mehul Choksi bank frauds.

Recently, the Enforcement Directorate had attached more than Rs 9,000 crore worth properties in connection with the Sterling Biotech bank fraud case, including private jets and a Nigerian oil field, making it one of the largest attachment order issued by the central probe agency.

Previously, the ED had attached around Rs 4,000 crore worth properties of the Sandesara brothers, including several bank accounts. While the CBI's FIR, of which the ED has taken cognizance, points to a bank fraud of over Rs 5,000 crore, ED's own investigations reportedly suggest that the company might have defaulted on a lot more loans pegging the total default amount at somewhere north of Rs 14,000 crore.

The bank loan fraud had allegedly been perpetrated by the Vadodara-based pharma firm and its main promoters Nitin Sandesara,

Chetan Sandesara and Deepti Sandesara, all of whom are absconding.

The Sandesaras are also under probe for their alleged nexus with some high-profile politicians by the ED as also by the CBI and the Income Tax Department under criminal sections that deal with corruption and tax evasion respectively.