A Delhi court Thursday granted bail to one of the main promoters of Sterling Biotech Ltd (SBL) Hemant Hathi in a ?8,100-crore bank fraud case.
Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora granted bail to Hathi, a chartered accountant, on a surety of ?1 lakh and a personal bond of like amount.
Hathi is one of the accused in the case along with SBL promoters - Nitin Jayantilal Sandesara, Chetankumar Jayantilal Sandesara, Dipti Chetan Sandesara, Hiteshkumar Narendrabhai Patel, Rajbhushan Dixit and middleman Gagan Dhawan.
The agency had said from the investigation conducted so far, the total amount involved in the money laundering, which "was nothing but proceeds of crime" in the matter, has been quantified as approximately ?8,100 crore.
The charge sheet, filed under the various provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act, accused the company of taking loans from a consortium of banks led by Andhra Bank, which had turned into non-performing assets (NPAs) or bad loans.
It said the accused manipulated figures in the balance sheets of their flagship companies and induced banks to sanction higher loans.
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