Industrialist Gautam Thapar booked in Rs 446-cr Yes Bank fraud
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The accused have been booked under sections of criminal conspiracy, cheating, criminal breach of trust and forgery. Last year, the CBI had filed an FIR against Rana Kapoor, former MD of Yes Bank, and his family members apart from Gautam Thapar and his Avantha group in connection with the sale-purchase of a prime property on Amrita Shergill Marg in Delhi
(This story originally appeared in on Jun 10, 2021)NEW DELHI: The CBI has filed an FIR against industrialist Gautam Thapar, promoter of the Avantha Group, and several others in connection with an alleged bank fraud case of Rs 466 crore. Thapar and others have been accused of defrauding
CBI carried out searches at 14 locations in Delhi-NCR, Kolkata, Lucknow, and Secunderabad on Wednesday, after registering the case against Gautam Thapar and others, which led to the recovery of incriminatory documents and digital evidence
The Central Bureau of Investigation today filed a case against billionaire Gautam Thapar, founder of the Avantha Group, and others for allegedly defrauding Yes Bank to the tune of Rs 466 crore.
NEW DELHI: The CBI has filed an FIR against industrialist Gautam Thapar, promoter of the Avantha Group, and several others in connection with an alleged bank fraud case of Rs 466 crore. Thapar and others have been accused of defrauding Yes Bank by availing a loan which turned into a non-performing asset (NPA).
The agency confirmed that searches were conducted at 14 locations in Delhi and NCR, Lucknow, Secunderabd and Kolkata on Wednesday which led to recovery of incriminating documents and digital evidence.
The action by the bank and the anti graft agency comes promptly in just over a year of the loan turning an NPA and the account being flagged by the lender.