Mumbai: Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday, the night of March 4, 2020, after hours of questioning. At the same time, on Wednesday, ED filed a new case in the money laundering case against Naresh Goyal and inquired for the whole day and started a search operation by going to his residence in the late evening. It is also being said that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has taken this action under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), in which criminal charges have been filed against Goyal and Jet Airways. An ED official said that prior to this, an investigation was being conducted against Goyal under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), in which he had mild charges against money laundering.
On this, the officer said that Goyal was summoned to the ED office last Wednesday morning, where he was questioned till late evening. At the same time, the agency officials took him along to his residence, where various documents were searched. The fraud investigation was launched against Jet Airways in July last year on the orders of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
For your information, let us tell you that a travel company had filed a complaint against Goyal and his wife Anita Goyal of Rs 46 crore and filed an FIR. Taking cognizance of the same sources, the ED has registered a case against the Goyal couple and Jet Airways. Earlier, the ED had raided the houses of the Goyal couple and their associates under FEMA. In this case in September last year, ED officials interrogated Goyal for eight hours continuously.
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