ED questions former Yes Bank CEO about Kapoor’s role in loans

MUMBAI: The Enforcement Directorate questioned former Yes Bank CEO Ravneet Singh Gill on Monday about the bank’s loans to and debenture investments in scam-tainted Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd (DHFL) and Rana Kapoor’s role in the transactions. Rana Kapoor, a founder of the bank, was arrested on Sunday by the ED in a moneylaundering case involving the alleged receipt of kickbacks in lieu of Yes Bank’s investment in DHFL.
They also seized 48 paintings from his house at Samudra Mahal building in Worli on Monday.
Meanwhile, ED learnt that Kapoor has been in the process of selling three bungalows at prime locations in Delhi for the last three months and suspects that he may have wanted to shift out of India. These bungalows are registered in the names of companies in which Kapoor’s wife, Bindu, and other relatives are directors. The ED has put restrictions on any further proceedings related to the bungalows. It found that Rana Kapoor had purchased multiple houses in London and the US in the names of companies owned by Bindu and his three daughters.The agency suspects these properties were purchased using the proceeds of crime.
On Monday, CBI and ED officials raided seven premises belonging to Kapoor, suspicious companies associated with him and his family members, and DHFL and its promoters Kapil Wadhawan and Dheeraj Wadhawan, alias Baba Dewan, in Mumbai.