Tina Ambani Skips Probe Agency ED's Summons In Money Laundering Case

Businessman Anil Ambani's wife Tina Ambani today skipped summons from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) which is probing money laundering cases allegedly to the tune of Rs 40,000 crore.

According to sources, the probe agency will issue fresh summons to Tina Ambani in connection with the case. 

The Enforcement Directorate has constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the alleged banking and corporate fraud worth Rs 40,000 crore involving the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) and linked entities.

The SIT is led by an additional director-rank officer in the headquarters investigation unit (HIU) of the federal probe agency and comprises about half a dozen other investigators, news agency PTI said citing sources.

The Supreme Court, while reviewing cases against ADAG, last week directed the ED to constitute an SIT that will undertake a "fair, independent, prompt and dispassionate" probe into the case.

It had asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is also probing the group, to look into the nexus, collusion, connivance and conspiracy, if any, and take its investigations to their logical conclusion.

The ED has been probing Anil Ambani and his Reliance Group companies since last year and has, till now, filed three Enforcement Case Information Reports (ECIRs) -- ED equivalent of police FIRs -- under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), apart from attaching assets worth Rs 12,000 crore.

Ambani, 66, was questioned by the ED last year for alleged bank loan "irregularities" of his group companies. A former top executive of the company and ex-RCOM president, Punit Garg, has been arrested by it recently.

The Anil Ambani Group companies have denied any wrongdoing in the past.