{"id":308487,"date":"2019-01-24T11:33:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T11:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308487"},"modified":"2019-01-24T11:33:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T11:33:52","slug":"former-icici-bank-chief-chanda-kochhar-husband-deepak-kochhar-named-by-cbi-in-icici-bank-videocon-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-icici-bank-chief-chanda-kochhar-husband-deepak-kochhar-named-by-cbi-in-icici-bank-videocon-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochhar, husband Deepak Kochhar named by CBI in ICICI Bank-Videocon case"},"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-308490 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/chanda-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/chanda-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/chanda.jpg 609w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday filed a case against former ICICI Bank Chief Executive Officer Chanda Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar, Videocon head Venugopal Dhoot and others in a case linked to alleged irregularities in loan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The agency alleged that the accused sanctioned certain loans to private companies in a criminal conspiracy with others in order to cheat ICICI Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The CBI also carried out searches at Videocon headquarters in Mumbai and Aurangabad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The CBI has registered the FIR in connection with the Rs3,250 crore loan that ICICI bank sanctioned to the Videocon Group in 2012.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Venugopal Dhoot allegedly invested crores of rupees in NuPower Renewables, a company founded by Kochhar&#8217;s husband, months after the Videocon group got a loan from the bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The agency had registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) against Venugopal Dhoot, Deepak Kochhar and others in March last year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday filed a case against former ICICI Bank Chief Executive Officer Chanda Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar, Videocon head Venugopal Dhoot and others in a case linked to alleged irregularities in loan. The agency alleged that the accused sanctioned certain loans to private companies in a criminal conspiracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[435,2789,2791],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308487"}],"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=308487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308491,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308487\/revisions\/308491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}