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.
After the State Bank of India, Bank of India has classified the loan account of insolvent Reliance Communications as fraudulent and named its former director, tycoon Anil Ambani, citing alleged fund diversion in 2016, according to a regulatory filing. State-owned Bank of India granted a Rs 700 crore loan in August 2016 to Reliance Communications for its ongoing capital and operational expenditure and repayment of existing liabilities. Half of the sanctioned amount disbursed in October 2016 was invested in a fixed deposit, which was not permitted as per the sanction letter, according to the bank's letter that RCom disclosed in a stock exchange filing. RCom said that it has on August 22 received a letter from Bank of India dated August 8 stating the bank's decision "to classify the loan accounts of the company, Anil Dhirajlal Ambani (promoter and erstwhile director of the company), and Manjari Ashok Kacker (erstwhile director of the company), as Fraud". Previously, State Bank of India
At present, Reliance Communications is being managed under the supervision of a Committee of Creditors, led by SBI and overseen by a Resolution Professional
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.
According to the documents reviewed by Reuters, the investment was made in exchange for loans from Yes Bank to other group companies
The agency is also likely to call for questioning former senior officials of Canara Bank and Bank of Baroda
The number of fraud cases investigated by the ED has been steadily increasing, over a decade till 2024
The Enforcement Directorate may summon Anil Ambani again in the Rs 17,000-crore loan fraud case after he sought 10 days to gather documents and clarify financial decisions
Anil Ambani arrives in Delhi after ED summons him in a case linked to alleged loan fraud; agency to record his statement on Tuesday under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act
As the Enforcement Directorate acts on a ₹3,000 crore loan case linked to Anil Ambani's group, here's how Indian law defines loan fraud and when defaults turn into criminal cases
Partha Sarathi Biswal, was taken into custody under the provisions of the PMLA 2002
The Enforcement Directorate has issued a lookout notice against Anil Ambani in connection with a money laundering case, preventing him from leaving India without prior approval
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The company further stated that it had a net exposure of Rs 6,500 crore, which was duly disclosed in its financial statements over the past four years
Anil Ambani has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate on August 5 for questioning in a money laundering case tied to alleged fraud involving bank loans worth crores of rupees
Enforcement Directorate (ED) summons Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani over alleged ₹10,000 cr loan fraud; probe reveals fund diversion, shell firms, Yes Bank link
Enforcement Directorate searches against the companies of Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani in Mumbai continued for the third day on Saturday with the agency recovering a number of documents and computer peripherals from multiple locations, official sources said. The raids were launched on July 24 by the federal probe agency as part of an alleged Rs 3,000 crore worth bank loan fraud-linked money laundering case apart from multiple other allegations of financial irregularities with crores of rupees by certain companies. The searches, being conducted under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), are continuing at some locations out of the more than 35 premises that were covered in Mumbai since Thursday, the sources said. These premises belong to 50 companies and 25 people including a number of executives of the Anil Ambani Group companies. ED sources had said the investigation primarily pertains to allegations of illegal loan diversion of around Rs 3,000 crore, given by the
Probe relates to alleged illegal diversion of loans worth Rs 3,000 crore from Yes Bank
The ED is currently examining over 50 companies and 25 individuals in connection to the alleged Yes Bank loan fraud case