Chennai:
The Enforcement Directorate attached seven properties worth Rs 10.7 crore belonging to Dindigul based Ari Fabrics in a Rs 50 crore bank fraud case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
The investigation by ED was initiated after Central Bureau of Investigation’s Bank Securities and Fraud Cell in Bangalore alleged that G. Srinivasan of Pamba Spinning mill Private Ltd, Udumulpet in Tiruppur District has defrauded Global Trade Finance Limited, Coimbatore (now SBI Global Factors Limited) to the tune of Rs 50 Crores by furnishing fabricated collateral securities and availing bill discounting in the name of fictitious firms, according to Enforcement Directorate joint director K S V V Prasad.
The funds were invested in purchase of various properties . Since there there was a prima facie case for Money laundering, Enforcement Directorate initiated investigations, he said.
Srinivasan admitted the fraud and accepted that the said money was utilised for purchase of several properties. During investigation, it was revealed that amount worth Rs 17 crore was moved to various spinning mills like VMT Spinning Mills, Pamba Spinning Mills , JKK Paper Mills , Sri Sakthi Iswarya Spinning Mills private limited and Paranthaman Spinning and Weaving Mills.
Accordingly the said properties of about Rs 17 crores were also attached earlier by the Enforcement Directorate, Chennai.
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