The Enforcement Directorate has filed its first charge sheet in a Mumbai court against ICICI Bank’s former CEO Chanda Kochhar, husband Deepak Virendra Kochhar, and nine others.
Videocon’s loan dealings with banks expose how easily banks could flout norms when approached by a powerful industrialist and raises more questions on the efficacy of safeguards banks and regulators follow to avert corruption in high value loan deals.
Assets worth Rs 78 crore (book value) have been attached in total.
She had moved the court on November 30, challenging her 'termination'.
Ever since the conflict of interest allegations emerged against Kochhar, the board has acted as if it was the personal defence team of the embattled CEO
As per the RBI findings, there were some issues but it could not establish “the aspect of quid pro quo allegation of extension of facilities by ICICI to Videocon”
Kochhar, whose term as CEO ends on March 31, 2019, is battling allegations of nepotism over loans given to Videocon Group whose promoter Venugopal Dhoot had links with her husband Deepak Kochhar's firm
The ICICI Bank-Videocon case will be in focus this week since April 10 is the last date for reply of the showcause notice issued by the Income Tax Department.