The Serious Frauds Investigation Office (SFIO) is understood to have arrested Ramesh C Bawa, former chief executive (CEO) of IL&FS Financial Services (IFIN), who had switched off his phone and vanished after the Supreme Court of India dismissed his petition challenging the SFIO’s powers to arrest him.
An anonymous whistleblower, who claims to be part of the “senior management team at Deloitte, Haskins and Sells LLP (Deloitte)” and has been “privy to several internal irregularities in providing professional services to the IL&FS (Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services) group” has written to us outlining how the audit firm benefited by helping the failed group fudge its accounts year after year
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday carried out raids in Mumbai on residences of former directors of fraud-hit Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS). The top executives whose homes were searched by ED include Rajesh Kotian, Shehzaad Dalal, Manu Kochhar and Mukund Sapre.