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PNB fraud: 107 companies, 7 LLPs under scanner

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No less than 107 companies and seven limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are believed to be under the scanner following the billion dollar Nirav Modi-Mehul Choksi scam unearthed by Punjab National Bank (PNB), the Minister of State (MoS) for Corporate and Law and Justice, PP Chaudhary, informed the Lok Sabha yesterday.

Further investigation of the select companies, as per the provisions of Section 212(1)(c) of the Companies Act, 2013 and Section 43(3)(c)(i) of Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008, will be carried out by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), he said.

He also said that investigation of these companies belonging to billionaire businessman, Nirav Modi (Firestar Diamond group) and Mehul Choksi (Gitanjali Group) is underway.

Last month, PNB had detected a $1.77 billion fraud, wherein noted jewellery designer, Nirav Modi had acquired multiple letters of undertaking (LOU) from PNB to avail overseas credit from a number of banks over the last few years.

The billionaire businessman, who owns Firestarter Diamond International Private Limited, and Choksi, his uncle, have been accused of defrauding PNB of Rs 12,600 crore, including Rs 1,300 crore being added to the fraud kitty on February 26.

Last week, the state-owned lender detected another fraud case at a Mumbai branch, which is at the Centre of around Rs 9.9 crore fraud, according to a complaint with the police.

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