Mumbai: Jet Airways owner Naresh Goyal detained in money laundering case, ED raids

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has raided the house of Naresh Goyal, the former chairman of Jet Airways in Mumbai. According to news agency PTI, Naresh Goyal has been detained in connection with the alleged money laundering case in the raid. Officials said Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal and some others have been detained by the ED in the money laundering case.

The Enforcement Directorate raided the Mumbai home of Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal late Wednesday in connection with an alleged money laundering probe. The ED, taking cognizance of an FIR filed by a travel company, has accused Mr. Goyal and his wife Anita Goyal of cheating Rs 46 crore, registering an FIR against Goyles and Jet Airways.

He said that after taking cognizance of the FIR of the Mumbai Police recently, a criminal case has been registered against the former chairman of the Airlines under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Allegations of alleged fraud by others.

The investigating agency, which is investigating alleged foreign exchange violations by Naresh Goyal and Jet Airways, recorded Goyal’s statement under a section of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

In September last year, Goyal was questioned by Enforcement Directorate officials for more than eight hours in early 2019, after Abu Dhabi’s Ehved Airways invested $ 150 million for a stake in the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) Had allegedly violated the provisions of Jet, a loyalty and rewards management company formed in 2012 as a subsidiary.