New Delhi, November 14 (IANS). Reliance ADAG Group’s Anil D. Ambani on Friday did not appear at the Delhi headquarters of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the second round of questioning in the bank fraud case. However, he has proposed a virtual appearance.
In a statement issued by Anil Ambani, the company said it will fully cooperate with the ED in all matters and is ready to appear virtually.
According to ED sources, they have not yet received any such message from Anil Ambani or his company.
The statement issued by Anil Ambani said, “The summons sent by ED to Anil D. Ambani is related to the FEMA investigation and not related to any PMLA case.”
The statement further said, “Anil D. Ambani is not a member of the Board of Reliance Infrastructure. He served only as a non-executive director in the company for approximately fifteen years from April 2007 to March 2022 and was never involved in the day-to-day management of the company.”
ED had summoned Anil Ambani again on November 14 for questioning in the money laundering case against the group. In August, he was rigorously interrogated for about nine hours at the ED headquarters in the alleged Rs 17,000 crore loan fraud case.
The development comes at a time when the ED on Monday temporarily attached over 132 acres of land worth Rs 4,462.81 crore in Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City in Navi Mumbai under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
The ED had earlier attached 42 properties worth more than Rs 3,083 crore in the bank fraud cases of Reliance Communications Ltd (RCom), Reliance Commercial Finance Ltd and Reliance Home Finance Ltd.
“The total seizure in these cases is more than Rs 7,545 crore. ED is actively pursuing perpetrators of financial crimes and is committed to returning the proceeds of crime to their rightful claimants,” the statement said.
Based on the CBI FIR, the ED had initiated investigation against RCom, Anil Ambani and others under sections 120-B, 406 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, and section 13(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1989.
-IANS
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