The move to sell the land parcel comes after the group had previously indicated it was exploring various new business options for the shipyard, whose assets it had acquired forRs 659 crore in September 2022.
The searches were undertaken on November 24 at seven locations in Mumbai, Pune and Delhi.
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ABG Shipyard was sanctioned loan under consortium arrangement led by ICICI Bank, and the account was declared as non-performing asset (NPA) by the lender banks in August 2013 and afterwards, Nirmala Sitharaman said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
As the SFIO cannot start an investigation suo moto, the Central Government must assign the investigation to the agency in the public interest.
On February 7, 2022, the CBI had filed a first information report (FIR) against ABG Shipyard, the flagship firm of the ABG Group, some of its top executives, unknown public servants, and private persons, accusing them of abuse of official position, criminal conspiracy, cheating, and criminal breach of trust.
The CBI swung into action after registering the FIR on February 7 on a complaint filed by SBI on August 25, 2020. The central probe agency has issued look out circulars against the accused in the case to prevent them from leaving the country, the officials said.
BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said the Congress has exposed itself by linking, what its chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala called the "biggest bank fraud", with Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government, as the probe has revealed the entire scam happened during the UPA dispensation.
In its biggest bank fraud case, the CBI had on February 12 booked ABG Shipyard Ltd and its former chairman and managing director Rishi Kamlesh Agarwal along with others for allegedly cheating a consortium of banks led by the State Bank of India of over Rs 22,842 crore.
Once a famed private shipbuilder in the country, ABG Shipyard fell from grace due to bad market and financial irregularities.
With ICICI bank being the consortium leader and IDBI bank in tow as the second lead, the formal complaint to CBI was lodged by the State Bank of India, given that it was the largest public service bank serving as a lender in the group.
Among the lenders, SBI was the first to classify the account as ‘fraud’, followed by ICICI Bank and then IDBI Bank.
ABG Shipyard is undergoing insolvency proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC, 2016) as per the NCLT orders.
The stocks that hit new 52-week low on the NSE were ABG Shipyard, Gayatri Highways, Punj Lloyd, IL&FS Transportation Networks, Nagarjuna Fertilizers, Raj Rayon Industries and Rolta India, among others
ABG Shipyard is undergoing insolvency proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code(IBC, 2016) as per the orders of NCLT.
According to a media report, UK-based Liberty is said to be in talks with co for a complete buyout.
Reliance Defence has expressed its interest in buying 'agreed assets' of ABG Shipyard but it is not interested in buying equity stake in ABG.
After invocation of SDR (Strategic Debt Restructuring) in October last year, a consortium of 22-lenders took control of 51 percent stake in the company, which has loan dues worth Rs 16,400 crore.
Asia's oldest bourse BSE today said it will suspend trading in securities of four companies, including ABG Shipyard and Mandhana Industries, from March 27 as they failed to comply with certain listing regulations.
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Amid reports that Reliance Defence, Shapoorji Pallonji Group and the UK's Liberty House Group have shown interest in buying ABG Shipyard, the debt-ridden company today said it is in discussions with various firms which may be prospective investor.
Lenders and promoters have kick-started the bid process to sell majority stake in the debt-laden ABG Shipyard, reports CNBC-TV18 quoting sources.
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Lenders to ABG Shipyard have become majority shareholders in the company despite failure to invoke strategic debt restructuring (SDR) where lenders can take 51 percent control, reports CNBC-TV18.