Financial institution fraud: ED attaches ₹252 crore value ‘Atmosphere Tower’ in Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh

The Enforcement Directorate Friday mentioned it has connected a multi-storeyed industrial advanced, value greater than Rs 252 crore, situated in Delhi’s Shalimar Bagh space in reference to a cash laundering investigation linked to an alleged financial institution fraud case in opposition to the Atmosphere Group. The immovable property is known as Atmosphere Tower and it belongs to an organization known as Atmosphere Towers Pvt Ltd, a agency of the Atmosphere Group promoted by Raj Singh Gehlot, the company mentioned in an announcement.

A provisional order, below the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA), was issued by the ED to connect the industrial constructing value a complete Rs 252.17 crore.

The cash laundering case stems from an FIR and chargesheets filed by the Jammu and Kashmir anti-corruption bureau that discovered that an organization named Aman Hospitality Pvt. Ltd, by its promoter director Gehlot, was sanctioned a time period mortgage facility of Rs 810 crore by a consortium of banks led by J&Okay Financial institution to half finance its resort venture in Shahdara, Delhi.

“The mortgage quantity later become an NPA. Throughout the investigation, it was revealed that Gehlot had diverted mortgage funds and layered the identical by an online of financial institution accounts belonging to his family members and Atmosphere Group firms,” the ED mentioned.

Other than the diversion of funds, it was additionally discovered that Gehlot “diverted” supplies to the opposite venture websites of the Atmosphere Group, it mentioned.

Gehlot was arrested by the ED in September 2021 on this case.

His spouse Sheela Gehlot and different administrators of the Atmosphere Group akin to Amit Gehlot, Shamsher Singh and Pawan Singh have been additionally named as accused within the chargesheets filed by the ED earlier.

The company earlier connected belongings value Rs 20.20 crore belonging to Raj Singh Gehlot, his relations and the Atmosphere Group firms.

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