CBI files chargesheet against DHFL’s ex-promoters, others

MUMBAI: CBI filed a chargesheeet in the special court in Delhi against DHFL erstwhile promoters and 17 others, along with 57 companies, many of them into construction in Mumbai, in a Rs34,000 crore bank fraud case.
DHFL's then CMD Kapil Wadhawan, his brother and then director Dheeraj and then CFO Krieshan Groverr were named as key accused in the case.
CBI also named Sunny Bhatija and Ajay Navandar in the chargesheet. Earlier, Sunny Bhatija was under the scanner for purchasing Worli properties of late drug smuggler Iqbal Mirchi through his company Sunblink Real estate.
Others named in the chargesheet included Harshil Mehta, advocate Ajay Vazirani, Jayesh Khona, Dinesh Bansal, Jignesh Mehta, Amit Chaturvedi, Navneet Lahoti, B.M. Chaturvedi, Santosh Sharma, Rajen Dhruv, Hetin Sakhuja, Balwinder Singh Malhotra, and S M N Naqvi.
CBI had not named builder Sudhakar Shetty in the chargesheet, but named him as an accused in the FIR. Shetty's construction company Sahana group was named accused in the chargesheet. CBI, continuing its investigation against Shetty along with another businessman, Avinash Bhosale, in the case.
The Wadhawan brothers had availed credit facilities in the name of DHFL of Rs42,871 crore from a Union Bank of India-led consortium of 17 banks. The brothers then diverted the money from DHFL to companies associates with them and others in the form of loans. Afterwards, DHFL defaulted on repayment.