The Enforcement Directorate has conducted eight searches so far in locations linked to Naresh Goyal after filing a fresh case where Canara Bank is the complainant
The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted interim stay on two notices issued by IDBI Bank to Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal and his wife Anita under provisions of the RBI's master circular to declare them as wilful defaulters. A division bench of Justices GS Patel and Neela Gokhale stayed the operation of the notices, related to a loan disbursed by the bank to the airline that was grounded in 2019, till July 24 when it would hear a petition filed by the Goyals. The 73-year-old businessman and his wife, in their plea, have challenged the notices, claiming they violated principles of natural justice. The petition stated that the bank had failed to provide the Goyals with the documents which they relied upon to pass the orders. The couple also claimed they had not been granted a hearing. "The (IDBI Bank) orders are in derogation of the intent behind the RBI master circular in that under the circular, the decision taken to classify a borrower as a wilful defaulter should be well ...
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In a huge relief for former Jet Airways Chairman Naresh Goyal and his wife Anita Goyal, the Bombay High Court on Thursday quashed the Enforcement Directorate (ED)'s case
The Bombay High Court has directed the Enforcement Directorate not to take any coercive steps till January 31 against Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal and his wife Anita Goyal in a money laundering case. A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and P K Chavan had granted interim relief to the couple last week. The detailed order was available on Tuesday. The bench is hearing the couple's pleas to quash the Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR), somewhat similar to an FIR, against them. In 2020, the agency had filed a criminal case against the Goyals and others under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after taking cognisance of a Mumbai police FIR. The Mumbai police FIR pertains to charges of alleged fraud by the Goyals and others against a city-based travel company. The Goyals, represented by senior advocates Ravi Kadam and Abad Ponda, told the court that there is no predicate offence, as required under the PMLA, to investigate the ECIR. They submitted that
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As efforts are on to restart services of Jet Airways, Orion IT Parks Pvt Ltd -- whose shareholders are Murari Jalan and Ankit Jalan -- will extend an Inter-Corporate Deposit (ICD) of Rs 50 crore
He also said that the "terms" accepted by the Jet Airways creditors did not make sense to CAPA
Stating that the police didn't consider crucial facts of the case, the ED has filed an intervention application before a court
Sources said the probe agencies are planning to move an application, seeking more time with respect to the filing of chargesheet in matters
Jet Airways' loan exposure to the crisis-ridden Yes Bank is about Rs 550 crore.
DHFL CMD Kapil Wadhawan, recently arrested by the ED in another case, has also been called for questioning
This will be the third consecutive day of questioning. On Wednesday, he was summoned to ED Mumbai's office, where he was interrogated for four hours and taken to his residence later in the evening
Earlier, the financial probe agency had registered a case of Foreign Exchange Management Act violations against the airline and Goyal last year
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Synergy Group is the only interested entity shortlisted by the Resolution Professional's team to file a plan for the defunct airlines
The grounded Jet Airways owes over Rs 8,000 crore to its lenders. Besides, the airline is estimated to have a total liability of about Rs 25,000 crore which includes dues of operational creditors.
The probe agency has found that the company's vast network of sales agents across the globe was not independent of Jet Airways and several of these entities were linked to its founder, Naresh Goyal
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It's anybody's guess whether investigating agencies would be able to pin Naresh Goyal down this time