NuPower Renewables -- the company founded by ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar's husband Deepak Kochhar -- must disclose the real identity of its majority shareholder DH Renewables Holding Ltd of Mauritius, whistle-blower Arvind Gupta has demanded, alleging masked share transfers. Videocon Group chairman Venugopal Dhoot is said to have invested in NuPower Renewables Pvt Ltd and extended Rs 64-crore loan after Videocon secured a loan from a consortium of banks that included ICICI. Gupta, who identifies himself as an informed and vigilant investor owning shares both in ICICI Bank and Videocon Industries, alleged that NuPower Renewables was a 50:50 joint venture of Deepak Virendra Kochhar and Dhoots when founded in 2008. Subsequently, "masked" share transfers were done to a trust called Pinnacle Energy, whose trustee is Deepak Kochhar, after Chanda Kochhar became the managing director and chief executive officer (MD&CEO) of ICICI Bank in May 2009. Gupta said the data he has gathered from
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