{"id":285199,"date":"2019-07-31T04:41:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T04:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=285199"},"modified":"2019-07-31T04:41:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T04:41:05","slug":"vvip-chopper-scam-i-t-sleuths-attach-rs-254-cr-benami-equity-of-ratul-puri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/vvip-chopper-scam-i-t-sleuths-attach-rs-254-cr-benami-equity-of-ratul-puri\/","title":{"rendered":"VVIP chopper scam: I-T sleuths attach Rs 254-cr benami equity of Ratul Puri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Income Tax Department has attached Rs 254 crore worth of &#8220;benami&#8221; equity of Ratul Puri which he had allegedly received from a suspect in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam case via shell companies, officials said Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Puri is the nephew of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath. <\/p>\n<p>They said a provisional order for attachment of the shares or non-cumulative compulsory convertible preference shares (CCPS) has been issued under the Benami Property Transactions Act. <\/p>\n<p>The funds were received as FDI investment in Optima Infrastructure Pvt Ltd, a group concern of his father Deepak Puri&#8217;s company Moser Baer, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Income Tax Department has attached Rs 254 crore worth of &#8220;benami&#8221; equity of Ratul Puri which he had allegedly received from a suspect in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam case via shell companies, officials said Tuesday. Puri is the nephew of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath. They said a provisional order for attachment of the shares or non-cumulative compulsory convertible preference shares (CCPS) has been issued under the Benami Property Transactions Act. The funds were received as FDI investment in Optima Infrastructure Pvt Ltd, a group concern of his father Deepak Puri&#8217;s company Moser Baer, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}