87 shell corporations, 2.6 lakh fictitious debtors: How DHFL promoters diverted cash borrowed from banks

DHFL’s promoters shaped 87 shell corporations, created greater than 260,000 fictitious debtors, arrange a ‘digital department’ in an effort to divert the cash it had borrowed from the banks, based on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The company in its cost sheet filed final month additionally mentioned that Kapil and Dheeraj Wadhawan purchased 24 work price Rs 63 crore from the diverted funds. 

The cost sheet acknowledged that DHFL disbursed Rs 11,675 crore to those 87 shell corporations between 2007 and 2017, and entities have been integrated within the title of Wadhawan’s staff, associates and associates, based on a report in The Financial Occasions.

A particular CBI courtroom, taking cognisance of the cost sheet, summoned all of the 75 accused. It additionally mentioned that an abroad degree investigation was required to make sure the path of the funds to DHFL, as per the report.

The CBI cost sheet acknowledged that DHFL used these entities fraudulently as autos to divert the funds they obtained from the banks to their entities. DHFL has many branches for mortgage disbursement however for loans disbursed to the shell corporations, they created a selected code within the title of ‘Bandra department’. 

Most of those Bandra e book corporations didn’t have any initiatives to avail loans from DHFL. No formal process of mortgage evaluation or appraisal was adopted within the approval of those loans. These loans have been authorised by Kapil Wadhawan. 

The ‘Bandra department’ with code 001 was created within the software program system. Trial stability of the previous software program system was manually fed in opposition to this department for reconciliation of the financial institution’s stability. The Bandra department didn’t exist bodily and was created just about and was a part of the prison conspiracy hatched by the promoters to siphon off funds from banks, the CBI mentioned. 

CBI acknowledged that the corporate created 260,000 dummy debtors, utilizing a software program that produces dummy knowledge utilizing names and addresses it picks up randomly of already present DHFL debtors. 

The Wadhawans additionally diverted funds for private bills together with overseas journeys, renting chartered flights, and bank card costs. 

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