Mumbai, 20 April 2026

 

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested two Senior Executives, D. Vishwanath and Anil Kalya of M/s Reliance Communications (R. Com), controlled by Anil D. Ambani.

The CBI had registered a Regular Case against M/s Reliance Communications Limited, Anil D. Ambani, and unknown others on the complaint of State Bank of India (SBI), on the allegations that the bank had sanctioned credit facilities to the accused company, but due to the fraudulent activities of the accused borrowers, the bank had to suffer a wrongful loss of around Rs. 2,929.05 crores. As per the complaint filed by SBI, a wrongful loss of Rs. 19,694.33 crores has been caused to 17 public sector banks / FIs. Investigation thus far has revealed that R. Com Ltd entered into circuitous transactions through shell entities controlled by the company’s officials and also got discounted LCs opened for bogus service-related transactions with its group entities, which got devolved, causing huge losses to the banks.

D. Vishwanath, Joint President of M/s R. Com, was overall in charge of the banking operations of the group, and on his directions, the misutilization of funds was carried out. He was in coordination with banks for sanction and disbursal of the facilities to the accused company. Anil Kalya, Vice President, had actively supported D. Vishwanath, and these two were important functionaries of the R. Com Group, managing corporate finance, banking operations, payments/utilization of funds, etc. They will be produced before the jurisdictional court.The investigation is ongoing.

It may be recalled that CBI, in the last few months, has registered seven cases against the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group on the complaints lodged by various public sector banks and LIC for frauds running into thousands of crores of rupees.

 

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PIB Mumbai | Edgar Coelho/Darshana Rane

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