{"id":305248,"date":"2018-11-06T05:22:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T05:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305248"},"modified":"2018-11-06T05:34:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T05:34:26","slug":"ed-arrests-mehul-choksi-aide-deepak-kulkarni-at-kolkata-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ed-arrests-mehul-choksi-aide-deepak-kulkarni-at-kolkata-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"ED arrests Mehul Choksi&#8217;s aide Deepak Kulkarni at Kolkata airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303991 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/arrest-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/arrest-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/arrest-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/arrest-555x420.jpg 555w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/arrest.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested fugitive jeweller Mehul Choksi&#8217;s close associate Deepak Kulkarni from Kolkata on Monday in connection with Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Deepak Kulkarni was arrested after he landed in Kolkata from Hong Kong.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kulkarni was arrested under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and was expected to be produced before a court on Tuesday, the officials said, adding that the ED would seek his transit remand to take him to Mumbai, where the case was registered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Deepak Kulkarni was the director of Choksi\u2019s dummy firm in Hong Kong, one of the main accused in the case. Earlier a look out circular was issued against him by ED and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">ED had last month seized assets worth over Rs 218 crore in the nearly Rs 13,000 crore loan fraud case probe, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mehul Choksi, his nephew and diamond jeweller Nirav Modi and others are being investigated under numerous criminal laws after the fraud came to light this year, following a complaint from the PNB that they allegedly cheated the nationalised bank to the tune of over\u00a0Rs.\u00a013,000 crore, with the purported involvement of some of its employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Both Mehul Choksi and Nirav Modi are absconding since the case was registered by the ED and CBI.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested fugitive jeweller Mehul Choksi&#8217;s close associate Deepak Kulkarni from Kolkata on Monday in connection with Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case, officials said. Deepak Kulkarni was arrested after he landed in Kolkata from Hong Kong.\u00a0 Kulkarni was arrested under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and was expected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[435,9555,2423,3844,542],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305252,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305248\/revisions\/305252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}