Searches that started on Monday covered offices of Nupower, a company operated by ICICI Bank’s former CEO Chanda Kochhar’s husband Deepak Kochhar.
New Delhi: The CBI has registered an FIR in connection with alleged irregularities in the Rs 3,250 crore ICICI Bank-Videocon loan case and is carrying out searches Thursday at the group headquarters in Mumbai and offices in Aurangabad, officials said.
The search operation started Thursday morning and also covered offices of Nupower, a company operated by ICICI Bank’s former CEO Chanda Kochhar’s husband Deepak Kochhar and Supreme Energy, they said.
It is alleged that Videocon promoter Venugopal Dhoot allegedly invested crores of Rupees in Nupower months after the Videocon group got Rs 3,250 crore as loan from the ICICI Bank in 2012, they said.
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The agency had registered a preliminary enquiry against Videocon promoter Venugopal Dhoot, Deepak Kochhar and unidentified others in March last year, they said.
A PE is a precursor before the agency lodges an FIR to probe criminal charges on the basis of evidence collected during the former exercise.
The agency has now converted it into an FIR which means a full blown investigation has been started by the agency after registration of a case.
The details of the FIR and names of the accused are awaited, they said.-PTI
Very unfortunate. K V Kamath was a large hearted man, someone who groomed not one but a whole batch of potential successors. So it was surprising, and not good for the institution, when the appointment of Ms Chanda Kochhar as CEO led to all of them leaving. One cannot recall, offhand, the name of the man who has replaced her, although he worked with her throughout her tenure. Whether it was her dress sense or her persona, for a decade it was something like India is Indira and Indira is India. The stock has underperformed its peers, ICICI Bank has had a much larger NPA problem than HDFC Bank. For about two years, the complaint which ultimately felled her was lying unattended in a host of important offices, each of which had the power and authority to take things to a swift, logical conclusion.