Mumbai: The CBI on Monday submitted a 7,000-page chargesheet in the Rs 13,400-crore PNB scam in a special court, where it mentioned charges against 22 people — including absconding billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi, his brother Nishal Modi and their firm’s executive Subhash Parab — and three private firms.
The chargesheet pertains to the CBI’s first FIR, which detected a scam of Rs 6.280 crore.
Among the accused are the bank’s former chief Usha Ananthasubramanian, who is now Allahabad bank CEO and MD.
Ananthasubramanian was the MD and CEO of PNB from 2015 to 2017 and was questioned recently by the CBI in connection with the case.
The chargesheet also made accused three companies namely Diamond R US, Solar exports and Stellar Diamonds of Nirav Modi. The court is yet to take cognisance of the chargesheet. The bank had in January uncovered the alleged fraud in which several bank officials were accused of colluding with the accused to issue fraudulent LoUs, for their companies to raise loans from overseas branches of mostly Indian banks.
A. Limosin, the CBI prosecutor in the case, said that the chargesheet does not include the names of Ami Modi, the wife of Nirav Modi, and his uncle and business partner Mehul Choksi.
According to Mr Limosin, the role of Mr Choksi may come up when the CBI files its chargesheets in the case related to the probe into Gitanjali Group.
