The attachment covers multiple properties linked to Reliance Communications (RCom) and other group entities, including buildings at Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City (DAKC) and Millennium Business Park
The ED said RCom and its group companies availed loans from multiple domestic and overseas lenders between 2010 and 2012, with outstanding dues now at ₹40,185 crore and several accounts declared fraud
Anil Ambani's Reliance Group on Tuesday said there is no impact on business operations of the group's listed companies because of the ED's attachment of Rs 7,500 crore worth of properties, which is linked to a money-laundering probe. The majority of the assets attached by the Enforcement Directorate belong to Reliance Communications, which is under the control of the Resolution Professional (RP) and the committee of creditors (CoC), led by State Bank of India, the group's listed firms said in stock exchange filings. The federal probe agency issued four separate provisional orders under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on October 31 for attaching 42 properties, including the 66-year-old Ambani's family home in Pali Hill, Mumbai, apart from other residential and commercial properties of his group companies. The attachment relates to cases involving Reliance Communications and its affiliates over the alleged diversion of loans taken from YES Bank between 2017 and ...
The Bombay High Court while upholding an order of the State Bank of India (SBI) classifying the accounts of industrialist Anil Ambani and Reliance Communications as fraud has said it was a reasoned order, and did not have any legal flaw. A bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Neela Gokhale on October 3 dismissed a petition filed by Ambani, challenging the SBI order. The judgment, a copy of which was made available on Tuesday, said there was no merit in Ambani's plea as there was no "infirmity" in the SBI order of June 13, 2025. The court did not entertain the industrialist's contention that the order should be held as null and void because he was not given a personal hearing, and relevant documents were not furnished to him. The right available under the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Master Directions, under which the SBI passed its order, is that of making a representation and not of personal hearing, the high court noted. Ambani had submitted his response to the show-cause .
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has widened its ongoing money-laundering probe against the group companies of Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani, with the registration of a fresh case against Reliance Communication Limited (RCom) for an alleged Rs 2,929 crore loan fraud with the SBI, official sources said. An Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR), the ED's equivalent for a police FIR, has recently been filed by the federal probe agency, taking cognisance of a CBI complaint registered on August 21, the sources said. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) carried out searches at the premises ofom and the residence of Ambani in Mumbai on August 23 as part of this SBI-linked investigation. The accused in the latest ED case are the same as in the CBI FIR, which includedom-Mumbai, its director Anil D Ambani, unidentified public servants and others on the basis of a complaint from the State Bank of India (SBI). The money-laundering investigation has been enlarged to look into all
The move follows similar actions by the State Bank of India and Bank of India, which flagged RCom loans citing diversion of funds in 2016
Anil Ambani's firm's stocks plunged as the CBI filed a case and carried out searches after a fraud complaint from the State Bank of India
These actions are contrary to the RBI regulations issued in July 2024, as well as to well-established law and the judgments of the Hon'ble Supreme Court and the Hon'ble Bombay High Court.
The CBI has filed a case against Reliance Communications and searched its premises on Saturday in connection with an alleged bank fraud that caused a loss of over Rs 2,000 crore to the State Bank of India, officials said. The agency is conducting searches at the premises linked to RCOM and its Promoter Director Anil Ambani, they said. The entities were classified as fraud on June 13 in accordance with the RBI's Master Directions on Fraud Risk Management and Bank's Board-approved Policy on Classification, Reporting & Management of Frauds, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary had said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha last month. "On June 24, 2025, the bank reported classification of fraud to RBI, and is also in the process of lodging complaint with CBI," he had said. More details are awaited.