A DAY after the CBI said it has booked a Gujarat-based boat building organization and its chiefs for false advance default to the tune of Rs 22,842 crore, the Congress on Sunday hit out at the BJP government, claiming that it was running a “plunder and getaway” lead plot for bank fraudsters.
Asserting that liquidation procedures of ABG Shipyard had started in 2017, the Congress inquired as to why it required five years for the CBI to stop the FIR.
The CBI Saturday said it has booked ABG Shipyard Ltd (ABGSL) and its previous administrator and overseeing chief, Rishi Kamlesh Agarwal, alongside then leader chief Santhanam Muthaswamy, chiefs Ashwini Kumar, Sushil Kumar Agarwal and Ravi Vimal Nevetia.
Another organization, ABG International Pvt Ltd, has likewise been reserved for the situation for supposed offenses of criminal connivance, cheating, criminal break of trust and maltreatment of true situation under IPC and Prevention of Corruption Act.
Tending to a question and answer session in Chandigarh, Congress representative Randeep Surjewala said the course of liquidation of ABG Shipyard was started in the NCLT, Ahmedabad in August 2017. In June 2019, he said, the advance and ledgers of ABG Shipyard were pronounced as “misrepresentation” and after five months, in November, the State Bank of India recorded a grievance with the CBI for enlistment of FIR against ABG Shipyard’s Rishi Agarwal and others.
“Notwithstanding the evident extortion and cheating of public cash, the CBI, SBI and the Modi government continued to confound the whole matter in regulatory fighting and document pushing,” he asserted.
Surjewala guaranteed that the SBI had documented a second grievance with the CBI in August 2020. “The interesting part is that in the grumbling dated August 25, 2020, the SBI has excused every one of the investors,” he said.
“For what reason did it require five years after the liquidation procedures of ABG Shipyard to hold up even a FIR for hoodwinking 28 banks of Rs 22,842 crore? For what reason did the public authority not hold up a FIR and make a lawbreaker move, regardless of ABG Shipyard accounts having been announced as ‘extortion’ in June 2019… Why did the public authority and CBI not record a FIR against ABG Shipyard after the principal grumbling made by SBI to CBI… Why did the CBI not stop a FIR after the subsequent protest… Does this not demonstrate complicity, agreement and conspiracy of those sitting in the most elevated echelons of force in the Modi government,” Surjewala said.
