It is alleged that the AW109SP helicopter was purchased by Varva Aviation, owned by an Association of Persons, in 2011 for Rs 36 crore, they said.
RKW Developers Pvt Ltd, which is owned by the Wadhawan family of DHFL Group, had allegedly joined the Association in 2017 by paying crores of rupees for the membership and maintenance of the chopper, they said.
It was reasonably apprehended that funds used by RKW Developers for buying stake in the Association were sourced from loans sanctioned by various banks of the 17-member consortium which was cheated by DHFL and its former CMD Kapil Wadhawan and Director Dheeraj Wadhawan, among others, to the tune of Rs 34,615 crore, they said.
After getting input about the investment, the CBI on Saturday seized the helicopter from a hangar at the premises of builder Avinash Bhosale at Baner Road, Pune, they said.
The CBI has recently charge-sheeted Bhosale in a separate case of corruption in DHFL and Yes Bank, they said.
The federal probe agency had booked Dewan
, the Wadhawan brothers and others on June 20 in the bank fraud case worth Rs 34,615 crore, making it the biggest such case probed by the agency, officials said.
It was alleged that they had cheated a consortium of 17 banks led by
by siphoning off Rs 34,615 crore bank loans by diverting them…
