New Delhi, Feb 16 (PTI) Tina Ambani, former actor and wife of Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani, is expected to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday for questioning in a money-laundering case.
This is the second summons issued to 69-year-old Tina Ambani.
She was issued the first summons to depose before the federal probe agency here on February 10 but she had skipped it.
She was then issued a fresh summons, asking her to appear before the ED on February 17.
There was no immediate response from ED officials on the development.
Once Tina Ambani deposes, she will be questioned and her statement will be recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), officials had said.
Anil Ambani, 66, has also been asked to depose before the agency on February 18 for the second time as part of the investigation linked to multiple Reliance Group companies and their bank loans. He first appeared before the ED in August 2025.
The Reliance Group has not responded to news reports related to these summonses.
It is understood that Tina Ambani has been called for questioning with regard to a money trail linked to the purchase of a luxury condominium in New York’s Manhattan.
The ED recently arrested former RCOM (Reliance Communication) president Punit Garg in the case.
The New York property was “fraudulently” sold in 2023 during the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) of RCOM by Garg, the ED had claimed in a statement earlier.
It is understood that RCOM informed the stock exchange about this “fraudulent” sale in 2025.
“The sale proceeds of USD 8.3 million (about Rs 69.55 crore in 2023) were remitted from the USA under the guise of a sham investment arrangement with a Dubai-based entity controlled by a Pakistan-linked individual, without the knowledge or consent of the Resolution Professional (RP),” the ED had claimed earlier.
The agency has recently constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to probe multiple cases of alleged bank fraud and linked financial irregularities against the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) on the directions of the Supreme Court.
It has attached assets worth Rs 12,000 crore as part of the probe and filed three complaints called ECIRs (Enforcement Case Information Reports) against Reliance Group companies. PTI NES RC
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She skipped the summons again. It was a no brainer that Anil Ambani would like to appear first, same way the couple appeared in panama papers probe in July 2023. Fielding all the tough questions before Tina, would give them the line of questioning and the material SIT has in hand. Tina Ambani wud be an easier nut to crack as compared to the seasoned Anil.
Clueless on the beans Punit Garg has been spilling for last 17 days, tactically it may have lead to Anil Ambani getting grilled deeper based on his wife’s statements, or a possible adverse action by end of the day on Feb 18th. The strategy is clearly to get Anil’s questioning done on Wednesday followed by Tina next week or even by end of this week. The same way they handled it in July 2023.
Though after skipping the earlier summons twice in November 2025, Anil Ambanis offer for a video conference questioning is unlikely to come up tomorrow, as ED will have reasons to seek non bailable warrants in his name. With Supreme Court coming out strongly recently, Anil Ambanis time wasting tactics of legal red tape would also not work.
In all likelihood we will see Anil Ambani walking into ED office tomorrow, but whether and what time he will come out remains a question that won’t be answered till he is confronted with his close aide Punit Garg. It goes without saying that Anil Ambani will have memory loss when presented with evidence, and may forget if he ever gave any instructions to Punit Garg. The interrogation presumably be un cooperative, and it will be upto the agency’s discretion to decide whether Anil Ambani leaves for his (provisionally attached) Abode on Wednesday night. Chances are he will. Because law only applies to the common man, the ultra rich always get “justice”, the way they want it to be.