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PNB fraud CBI arrests five staffers of Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi
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SME Times News Bureau | 21 Feb, 2018
The CBI on Tuesday arrested five employees of diamond merchants Nirav
Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi in the Rs 11,300 crore Punjab National
Bank (PNB) fraud, an official said.
Those arrested include three employees of the Nirav Modi group of companies and two of the Choksi-owned Gitanjali group.
Nirav
Modi's Firestar International firm's President Vipul Ambani, its Senior
Executive Arjun Patil, and Executive Assistant and authorised
signatory of the diamond merchant's three accused firms, Kavita
Mankikar, were arrested after daylong questioning.
Chief Managing Officer (CFO) of Gitanjali group, Kapil Khandelwal, and its Manager Niten Shahi were also held.
The
arrests were made in two cases registered by the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) on February 14 and 15 against Nirav Modi and the
Gitanjali group of firms respectively.
The CBI had earlier arrested five PNB officials and one authorised signatory of Nirav Modi.
The
central agency also questioned 10 Punjab National Bank (PNB) officials,
including an Executive Director, and 18 employees of Nirav Modi and the
Gitanjali group in the Rs 11,300 crore bank fraud.
A CBI team
also conducted raids at diamantaire Nirav Modi's Alibaug farmhouse near
Mumbai which has a palatial bungalow, an official said.
Apart
from the questioning of Mumbai-based PNB's Brady House branch employees,
eight staff and associates of Nirav Modi group of companies, including
Chief Financial Officer Ravi Gupta, President Foreign Finance Division
Saurabh Sharma and Finance Executive Subhash Parab, were also quizzed.
The CBI also questioned 10 employees of Gitanjali group firms -- Gitanjali Gems Ltd, Gili India Ltd, and Nakshatra Brands Ltd.
Gitanjali group and its India-based 18 subsidiaries are headed by Mehul C. Choksi.
"Most of the PNB and Nirav Modi company's employees were also questioned for over eight hours on Monday," the CBI official said.
The
central agency is also said to have seized some significant documents
from the Navi Mumbai, Andheri and Dombivli residences of three PNB
officials arrested on Monday.
The CBI had raided these places on
Monday night after the arrest of Brady House branch's Chief Manager
Bechu B. Tewari and two colleagues Yashwant Joshi, Scale II Manager
(Forex Department), and Praful Sawant, Scale I officer (Export) after
daylong questioning.
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