A ‘commission’ is the crux of the investigation into the ICICI-Videocon affair
THE CBI, in its preliminary inquiry into the dealings between ICICI Bank and Videocon Group, is also probing the money laun dering angle. Videocon Group chairman Venugopal Dhoot and Deepak Kochhar, husband of ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar, are among those who have been cal led for questioning so far. The CBI is probing the money trail linked to a Rs 3,250 crore loan that ICICI Bank made to Videocon Group in 2012 as part of an SBIled consortium loan of Rs 40,000 crore. At the crux of the case are the business dealings between members of the Dhoot and Kochhar families, particularly the transfer of a Rs 64 crore ‘business’ by the Dhoots to Deepak Kochhar. The question being asked is whether this Rs 64 crore, which works out to roughly two percent of the ICICI loan, was in fact a ‘commission’.
CBI sources say there has been no move yet to call Chanda Kochhar for interrogation, as her name does not figure in the PE (preliminary enquiry). However, others who do not figure in the PE—Chanda Kochhar’s brother-in-law Rajiv Kochhar, and Mahesh Chandra Pugalia, a close aide of Venugopal Dhoot—have been called in for initial investigations, and ICICI Bank officials are also expected to be summoned in the days ahead. The CBI spokesperson refused to corroborate or deny whether “lookout notices” had been issued; if these have indeed been issued, it means that no one connected with the case will be allowed to leave the country. After Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, the CBI wouldn’t want to take the rap for the accused escaping India’s shores.
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