In a new dimension to the Dewan Housing Finance Ltd. (DHFL) fraud, an apex banking union and the staff of the UTI-AMC have demanded a “forensic audit” into their company`s purported “Rs 2000-crore exposure” into the scam-hit group of Dheeraj R. Wadhawan and Kapil R. Wadhawan.
The staffers` groups are: the Mumbai-based All India UTI-AMC Officers` Association (AIUTI-AMCOA) and the external but influential Chennai-based All India Bank Officers Association (AIBOA).
The AIUTI-AMCOA and AIBOA have shot off separate letters to various entities while a top leader has sought Central government`s directions to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Income Tax (IT) Department to probe the matter thoroughly as it involved “huge public funds”.
AIUTI-AMCOA Chairman Vishwas Utagi and General Secretary Pawan K. Abrol have written to the Joint Secretary, Department of Investment & Public Asset Management (DIPAM), Ministry of Finance and the SEBI Chairman on the losses allegedly suffered by the UTI Treasury Advantage Fund in the DHFL imbroglio.
On its two letters (November 2019 and January 2020), Utagi and Abrol said that the UTI-AMC gave a vague reply (November 25, 2019) that the “UTI Mutual Fund (UTI MF) had taken a prudent exposure of 3.5 per cent-4 per cent in UTI-TAF Scheme when DHFL was AAA rated”.
Abrol said this implied that there were no subsequent investment/s by UTI-AMC, particularly after September 2018 when DSP Mutual Fund sold off their…
