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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday, said that assets worth more than 5,000 crore have been attached under the anti-money laundering case in an alleged bank loan fraud case against Amtek Group and others..
In a fresh development in the bank fraud case, the ED has attached farmhouses, hundreds of acres of agricultural and industrial lands across states, and shares and debentures in the case against Amtek group, reported PTI, citing the law enforcement agency on Saturday...
Several subsidiaries of Amtek group like Amtek Auto Limited, ARG Limited, ACIL limited, Metalyst Forging Limited and Castex Technologies Limited along with other were taken to insolvency, whose resolution had led to "huge haircut" of more than 80 per cent for the banks causing "substantial" losses to these public sector banks, it claimed...
The ED probe also found the group responsible for "deceitfully manipulating" company financial statements to obtain additional fraudulent loans and create bogus assets and investments in the books of accounts, reported new agency PTI...
The ED search to multiple locations revealed a complex web of more than 500 shell companies which were deployed to hold and invest in high value real estate and luxury properties, whose shareholdings were concealed in a "highly complex shareholding structure", it said.. "These shell companies were holding assets, whose beneficial ownership has been revealed to be with Arvind Dham, the main promoter and beneficial owner of the Amtek group of companies and he was was found to be alienating or transferring these assets," it said.. (With inputs from PTI)..
