ICICI Bank-Videocon loan case: After intensive questioning\, Deepak Kochhar and Venugopal Dhoot leave ED office post midnight

ICICI Bank-Videocon loan case: After intensive questioning, Deepak Kochhar and Venugopal Dhoot leave ED office post midnight

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After intensive questioning by the Enforcement Directorate, and left the office of the investigating agency little after midnight on Sunday.

Chanda and her husband appeared before the investigators around 11 a.m., while reached around 2 p.m.

left the probe agency's office little after half an hour, while and Dhoot were quizzed for several hours.

Their statements were recorded by the ED and documents which were seized by the agency were also confronted before them.

On Friday, the ED had searched premises of and Venugopal Dhoot in and respectively in connection with a money laundering case, an said.

The development comes weeks after the ED registered a criminal case against the two for alleged money laundering. The case was registered under the Prevention of Money Laundering (PMLA) Act.

On February 22, the (CBI) had issued lookout circulars (LOCs) against Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar and Videocon Group's Dhoot.

"The LOCs were issued after the FIR was filed in the case. LOCs are mandatory in cases where such economic offences are alleged," the said, adding, "In recent times, keeping an eye on is a top concern for regulators."

The ED had registered a criminal case last month against Kochhar, her husband, Deepak Kochhar, Venugopal Dhoot and others to probe alleged irregularities and corrupt practices in sanctioning of an Rs 3,250-crore loan by the to the group.

The had filed a complaint last month and an Enforcement Case Information Report later under the PMLA.

The agency is probing if alleged kickbacks were generated in the loan deal and laundered to create tainted assets.

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First Published: Sun, March 03 2019. 03:20 IST