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Multiple premises raided by ED in money laundering case against GVK, MIAL

Lawstreet Journal 30 Jul 2020 3:34am

Image courtesy: Lawstreet Journal Business Multiple premises raided by ED in money laundering case against GVK, MIAL

On Tuesday (28th July) the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided multiple locations related to a money laundering case against GVK Group, Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL), and others for probing of the alleged irregularities of Rs 705 crore in running the Mumbai Airport. 

Nine locations in Mumbai and Hyderabad were raided under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) with the aim of collecting evidence.

An official said that offices of GVK Group, MIAL, and the premises of GVK Group promoters were raided. 

An enforcement case information report, which is equivalent to a police FIR, was filed earlier this month by the central probe agency under PMLA after the study of a recent Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) First Information Report (FIR) that was filed against the same entities.

It is being probed if genuine funds were laundered to amass personal assets by the accused by the illegal routing of funds.

The ED and CBI cases are concerned with alleged siphoning off Rs 705 crore from the MIAL funds, a joint venture under public-private partnership (PPP) between the GVK Airport Holdings Limited and the Airports Authority of India (AAI), besides other investors, by showing inflated expenditure, under-reporting of revenues, fudging of records, among others.

Gunupati, a director in MIAL, his son GV Sanjay Reddy, managing director at MIAL, the companies MIAL, GVK Airport Holdings Limited (a GVK group company) and nine other private companies that were allegedly used to camouflage inflated figures through sham deals and unidentified AAI officials have been booked by CBI.

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