NEW DELHI: In its ongoing money laundering investigation against Anil Ambani’s Reliance Group entities, ED Thursday said the special task force constituted at its headquarters here has attached more assets, worth over Rs 1,452 crore, including multiple buildings in Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City (DAKC) and Millennium Business Park, Navi Mumbai, as well as plots of land and buildings in Pune, Chennai and Bhubaneswar. The total attachments in the case now stand at Rs 9,000 crore.The ED’s investigation under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) is based on a CBI FIR against Reliance Communications Ltd (RCom), Anil Ambani and others, the agency said. “It may be recalled that Enforcement Directorate (ED) had earlier attached properties worth over Rs 7,545 crore in the bank fraud cases related to RCom, Reliance Commercial Finance Ltd and Reliance Home Finance Ltd,” it added.A spokesperson for Anil Ambani, however, said, “Anil D Ambani is in no way involved with RCom and has resigned six years ago…the attached assets belong to RCom, which has not been a part of the Reliance group since 2019.”ED further said that RCom and its group companies had availed loans from domestic and foreign lenders from 2010-2012 onwards, of which a total amount of Rs 40,185 crore was outstanding. At least nine banks have declared the loan accounts of the group as fraud. “Investigation revealed that loans taken by one entity from one bank were utilised for repayment of loans taken by other entities from other banks, transfer to related parties, and investments in mutual funds,” ED said. The probe further revealed RCom and its group companies had diverted over Rs 13,600 crore for evergreening of loans; over Rs 12,600 crore was diverted to connected parties; and over Rs 1,800 crore invested in FDs/MFs etc.
