ED searches 2 former IL&FS auditors
Alleges in the chargesheet that the company’s senior management indulged in acts of commissions and omissions, leading to illegal personal gains to them
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Mumbai: The ED carried out searches against two former auditor firms of IL&FS -- BSR and Associates and Deloitte Haskins and Sells -- on Wednesday in connection with its money-laundering probe into alleged financial irregularities at the infrastructure development and finance company, official sources said.
The premises linked to the two auditors in Mumbai were searched under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they added. The action came a week after the Supreme Court set aside a Bombay High Court verdict that quashed an SFIO probe against the two companies, both former auditors of IL&FS Financial Services, paving the way for action against them under the Companies Act and allowing the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to take forward its enquiry against them. Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited (IL&FS) filed for bankruptcy in 2018.
