In a huge relief for former Jet Airways Chairman Naresh Goyal and his wife Anita Goyal, the Bombay High Court on Thursday quashed the Enforcement Directorate (ED)'s case
The Bombay High Court has directed the Enforcement Directorate not to take any coercive steps till January 31 against Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal and his wife Anita Goyal in a money laundering case. A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and P K Chavan had granted interim relief to the couple last week. The detailed order was available on Tuesday. The bench is hearing the couple's pleas to quash the Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR), somewhat similar to an FIR, against them. In 2020, the agency had filed a criminal case against the Goyals and others under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after taking cognisance of a Mumbai police FIR. The Mumbai police FIR pertains to charges of alleged fraud by the Goyals and others against a city-based travel company. The Goyals, represented by senior advocates Ravi Kadam and Abad Ponda, told the court that there is no predicate offence, as required under the PMLA, to investigate the ECIR. They submitted that
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He also said that the "terms" accepted by the Jet Airways creditors did not make sense to CAPA
Stating that the police didn't consider crucial facts of the case, the ED has filed an intervention application before a court
Sources said the probe agencies are planning to move an application, seeking more time with respect to the filing of chargesheet in matters
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This will be the third consecutive day of questioning. On Wednesday, he was summoned to ED Mumbai's office, where he was interrogated for four hours and taken to his residence later in the evening
Earlier, the financial probe agency had registered a case of Foreign Exchange Management Act violations against the airline and Goyal last year
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The grounded Jet Airways owes over Rs 8,000 crore to its lenders. Besides, the airline is estimated to have a total liability of about Rs 25,000 crore which includes dues of operational creditors.
The probe agency has found that the company's vast network of sales agents across the globe was not independent of Jet Airways and several of these entities were linked to its founder, Naresh Goyal
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It's anybody's guess whether investigating agencies would be able to pin Naresh Goyal down this time
The enforcement agency is probing Goyal's offshore investments which were made through diversion of funds from Jet Airways to 19 shell companies allegedly managed by him
This is the first time that the central agency is grilling him after it conducted searches against him last year
The ED has taken possession of various incriminating documents