The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a chargesheet in the special court in Delhi against DHFL erstwhile promoters and 17 others, along with 57 companies, in a Rs 34,000 crore bank fraud case.
In its chargesheet, the agency has DHFL’s then CMD Kapil Wadhawan, his brother and then director Dheeraj and former CEO Harshil Mehta as accused in the mega-scam case. The CBI has also named the then CFO Krieshan Groverr as a key accused in the case.
Others named in the chargesheet included Harshil Mehta, advocate Ajay Vazirani, Jayesh Khona, Dinesh Bansal, Jignesh Mehta, Amit Chaturvedi, Navneet Lahoti, BM Chaturvedi, Santosh Sharma, Rajen Dhruv, Hetin Sakhuja, Balwinder Singh Malhotra, and S M N Naqvi.
The investigation agency had registered a case in June in the DHFL bank fraud matter for alleged defrauding of a consortium of 17 banks to the tune of Rs 34,000 crore, making it the biggest banking loan fraud of the country, the officials said.
In the chargesheet, the agency has listed 18 individuals, including former chairman and managing director (CMD) Kapil Wadhawan, and 57 companies through which funds were diverted, they alleged.
The officials said that an advocate, Ajay Vazirani, businessman Ajay Navandar, several chartered accountants, former executives of DHFL and other related companies have been named in the charge sheet as accused.
The CBI had booked the Wadhawans and others on a complaint from the Union Bank of India, the leader of the 17-member lender consortium that had extended credit facilities to DHFL to the tune of Rs 42,871 crore between 2010 and 2018.
The CBI has has alleged that the company committed financial irregularities, diverted funds, fabricated books and round-tripped funds to “create assets for Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan” using public money, the CBI said in the chargesheet.
DHFL loan accounts were declared non-performing assets at different points of time by lender banks, the officials said.
