The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday filed a fraud case against Kwality Ltd, which makes dairy products, for cheating a consortium of banks led by Bank of India.
The CBI registered a case against ice cream manufacturing company Kwality Ltd on complaint from a consortium of banks. (File Photo/PTI)
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The company is accused of ₹1,400 crore fraud.
The agency registered the case after complaint from Bank of India. The investigating agency is conducting searches at eight locations, including Delhi, Bulandshahr, Saharanpur, Ajmer and Palwal.
The company’s directors Sanjay Dhingra, Siddhant Gupta and Arun Srivastava have also been named in the CBI case, apart from other unknown people.
The banks said in their complaint that Kwality Ltd cheated them by ways of diversion of bank funds, sham transactions with related parties, fabricated documents/receipts, falsified books of accounts and creation of false assets and liabilities.
Other than Bank of India, the consortium includes Canara Bank, Bank of Baroda, Andhra Bank, Corporation Bank, IDBI, Central Bank of India, Dhanlaxmi Bank and Syndicate Bank.
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