North India Statesman
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Mumbai-New India Co-Oop, which is surrounded in controversies due to a scam of Rs 122 crore. The bank waived Bollywood actress Preity Zinta for the disposal of her loan account. Preity Zinta’s loan account was declared a non-performing asset (NPA) by the bank. While investigating the previous transaction in the bank scam investigation, the police came to know that Preity Zinta was approved in 2011 and was settled in 2014.
The Economic Offenses Branch of Mumbai Police (EOW) is currently investigating the New India Co-op. The bank is investigating the embezzlement case. So far, eight accused have been arrested in this case, including former general manager and account chief of the bank, Hitesh Mehta. Who was arrested on 15 February. The Economic Offenses Branch has been currently investigating the bank’s NPA loan data since 2010.
During the investigation, it was found that actress Preity Zinta had taken a loan from the bank. On 7 January 2011, he sanctioned a loan of Rs 5 lakh. 18 crores For this, he mortgaged his assets to the bank, including a flat in Mumbai and a property in Shimla.
The value of this property was Rs 27.41 crore. An official said that by November 2012, he had to pay a loan of Rs 11.47 crore to the bank. However, due to non -payment of loan on time, its loan account was classified as NPA on 31 March 2013 and the NPA amount increased to Rs 11.47 crore.
The officer further informed that after this he was offered to settle the loan by giving relief of Rs 5 lakh. 1.55 crore on loan settlement. The official clarified that the remaining loan amount was repaid by the actress on 5 April 2014.
It is worth noting that earlier after Preeti’s name came in this case, she had clarified that she had repaid this loan account a long time ago.
