Country’s biggest bank scam has come to light. This scam is said to be more than 34 thousand crore rupees. The CBI has booked the scam company Dewan Housing Finance Limited (DHFL) and its associates under various criminal sections in this case. Along with this, raids have been conducted at many places across the country.
During the raids, many incriminating and important documents and electronic devices have been recovered by the CBI. Earlier, the bank scam of 22 thousand crores came to the fore as the biggest scam.
According to CBI spokesperson RC Joshi, Vipin Kumar Shukla, Deputy General Manager, Union Bank of India, had given a written complaint in this case. In which it was said that Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited and its associate companies and associates have defrauded Union Bank of India, which is leading a consortium of 17 banks, to the tune of Rs 34 thousand 615 crore. This incident is from the year 2010 to the year 2019.
It was said in the complaint that the HDFC company has been taking credit facilities from banks for a long time. This company operates in many sectors. This company has acquired from a consortium of 17 banks including Bank of Baroda, Central Bank of India, Bank of Maharashtra, IDBI, UCO Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Punjab & Sind Bank, State Bank of India from Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Kolkata. And took credit facility at places like Cochin etc. It is alleged that this company took a total loan of more than 42 thousand crores from banks, but out of that 34,615 thousand crores of loans were not returned. Also one of his accounts became NPA on 31 July 2020.
It is alleged that this company did not use the money for which it was taken from the bank, the funds which were taken from the banks were sent to other companies within a short time of a month. During the investigation, it was also found that the loan money was also sent to the companies of a person named Sudhakar Shetty, as well as this money was invested in joint ventures of other companies.
It has also been learned that the loan money was sent to more than 65 companies, for this there was a fraud in the account book. The CBI has registered a case under various criminal sections against a total of 13 people including Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited, its director Kapil Wadhawan Dheeraj Wadhawan, another person Sudhakar Shetty and other companies Gulmarg Relators, Skylark Buildcon Darshan Developers, Township Developers.