DHFL Bank Fraud: DHFL scam: The family accused of the biggest banking fraud knows how to stay out of jail

On Wednesday this week, the CBI booked Dewan Housing Finance Limited or DHFL and its Directors Kapil Wadhawan, Dheeraj Wadhawan and others for allegedly defrauding 17 banks of Rs 34,615 crore. This is the biggest case of bank fraud ever registered by the CBI.

Only ABG Shipyard comes close; it was booked for defrauding banks of Rs 23,000 crore.

DHFL promoters, including the Wadhawan brothers, are already under investigation by both the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a case of alleged fraud involving

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In March-April this year, both India Today and The Print reported how two years have passed since Dheeraj Wadhawan was arrested in connection with the Yes Bank money laundering case, but he has spent more time in a luxury hospital than behind bars.

Since his arrest on 26 April 2020, for allegedly getting investments of Rs 3,700 crore from Yes Bank for DHFL in exchange for “substantial undue benefit” to bank CEO Rana Kapoor and his family, Wadhawan has been repeatedly denied bail but spent only about nine months in jail.

For the remaining 15 months or so, he has divided his time between hospitals, citing a succession of ailments. These stays have included a 10-month stint at Mumbai’s plush Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital.

Wadhawan repeatedly petitioned the courts and when such appeals failed, the Maharashtra Human Rights Commission, to get himself into hospital.

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